I reply (Ws): We cannot look at issues in abstraction, we have to take them in their historical context. It was not the 'left agitators' who decided to fight these battles once again, and the progressives shunning them as 'irrelevant." On the contrary, we see the re-introduction of these issue precisely at the time when the corporate elites divide the spoils of the cold war. We see the mainstream publishing companies suddenly printing crap that a few years ago was considered unpublishable, and deservedly so.
Various crackpots have always existed on the fringes of this society, but they are usually ignored by the mainstream corporate media. So when they suddenly find their ways into the mainstream culture, something is very fishy here - unless you want to believe that corporations, the media, and politicians do nothing but respond to the demand side.
regards,
WS