From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Fri Jun 29 2007 - 10:37:29 EDT
>>>What I meant to say to you Jerry is this - in my opinion, in the real world of politics, ideology is often much less important than intellectuals suppose. You have a problem to solve, and you have to organise people to solve it, and ideology often is more of a hindrance than a help, to solving it. <<< Hi Jurriaan: I think there are many historical examples which show that this is often _not_ the case: instead of politics being driven by pragmatic consideration, idology is often in the drivers seat. This is true for many right-wing governments (including, relatively recently, the Reagan and G.W. Bush administrations) and some left-wing governments (e.g. the PRC in the Great Leap Forward or the USSR during the period of War Communism). In solidarity, Jerry Peaks Is, ME headed Downeast
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