Abortion and the Death Penalty (was Re: abortion litmus test)

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Mon Jun 1 15:27:58 PDT 1998


At 04:35 PM 6/1/98 -0500, Bill Lear wrote:
>Katha has eloquently argued against the rest of Wojtek's post
>elsewhere, so I'll let her respond to that if she likes. As to the
>above, if the fight for women's choice is a "distraction" because it
>is "an old battle", then so is the fight against racism, "won" in the
>Civil War. Simply put, the battle is still going on; it was not "won"
>in Roe v. Wade; and saying it is a distraction because business has
>continued its plunder is ... well ... breathtakingly arrogant.
>

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



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