[Upd-discuss] Re: Article: A cyberspace Lenin: why not? By Slavoj Zizek

[Lars Aronsson]

Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza wrote:
> Lars Aronsson says:
> 
> > Lenin was a mass murderer, just like his follower Stalin. These 
> > people have nothing in common with anything this list is about.
> 
> What Lars is doing is known as logical fallacies of expression, in this
> case a fallacy of distraction to deviate the sustance of the argument with
> other nonsensical things, like attacking persons (argumentum ad hominem),
> Lenin, Stalin and me as a suppossedly "follower" of them, instead of
> "attacking" the arguments being discussed. And he is doing so to change
> the subject, that is, he changes my topic or argument with his personal 

I'm a member of this list and I encourage others to join it, 
because discussions here are often interesting and important.  
But if somebody says "by the way, <insert-favorite-dictator-here> 
was a really nice guy, from whom we could learn a lot" and I let 
that pass without protesting, then people are going to ask me why. 
I wish that we could leave Lenin out of these discussions.  It 
certainly wasn't me who brought him in.

If the "why not?" in the subject line is a question, then my 
answer is: Because he was a mass murderer.  That's why.


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