Re: CHAT: pacifism

Thomas R. Wier scripsit:

> I dunno about that.  Einstein was clearly a pacifist, but he was
> nowhere near as militant as Chomsky.
Fair enough.  The list, however, was of militant libertarian socialists,
not militant pacifists per se.  I was merely demonstrating that militant
pacifism is not a contradiction in terms, and mentioned offhand that
Einstein belonged on Hanuman's list.

> Chomsky, by comparison,
> to my knowledge has never not condemned any war, whatever the motives.
I don't know that he has condemned WWII (but I don't know that he hasn't,
either).

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