06-01-2011, 07:41 PM
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:May I comment on two important points being addressed here:Thanks a bunch for that Jim. VERY impressive stuff if I may say so.
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I know you will understand how my apparent defence of RM on the other thread was intended - ie nothing to do with the person and everything to do with the effects that even fully justified anger/exasperation - when clearly dominating a post - has on the less knowledgeable reader; and that's all.
Have you come across the series of articles in the Feb 2010 edition of 'American Behavioral Scientist' ? I commend them as scholarly attempts at development of what is now proposed as the SCAD's framework for studying Scott's 'Deep Politics' - even if from the somewhat specialised perspectives of behavioural scientists.
All six articles are posted here
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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