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Subject: Re: What is JoSH?
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Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 09:04:49 EST
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> It is hard to respond to something which is apparently not an
> argument but just a form of name-calling.  The strongest feeling I
> get from reading JoSH's response is that at this point he is not
> interested in making an honest effort to understand Marxian and
> socialist thought.  If he wishes to persuade skeptics like me that
> libertarians are thoughtful and well-informed people, this is not the
> way to do it.  A common denominator of libertarians on the net, even
> the economically sophisticated ones, is that they have absolutely no
> notion of what Marx said and thought.  Either they're interested in
> learning or they're not, but we can only have a meaningful discussion
> when the participants on various sides genuinely try to understand
> the others' points of view.  
> 
> Richard Carnes, ihnp4!gargoyle!carnes

Richard, while there *are* many interesting and informative libertarians
on the net, JoSH is not one of them.  I have made it a policy to
simply skip his articles: it was only inadvertantly from reading yours
that I got a portion of his. I don't know why JoSH insists on name-calling
and such distortions of others viewpoints, and moreover a complete
lack of concern for facts or responses to others facts.
But I have found it a waste of time reading JoSH's articles and the 
volley of irrelevant name-calling he provokes.
bring back Danny McK!
          tim sevener   whuxl!orb