left conservatism

[Jim heartfield]

In message <v03102802b1af6c92b179@[128.146.5.16]>, Yoshie Furuhashi
<furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes
>In my terminology, left conservatives possess the following
>characteristics:
>
>(1) economically populist but socially conservative;
>
>(2) think that anti-sexism, anti-racism, anti-heterosexism, etc. are
>divisive and must be subordinated or postponed;
>
>(3) while economy is a materialist question, gender, race, sexuality, etc.
>are not.

In my terminology left-conservatives exhibit the following
characteristics:

1. An inability to appreciate what has changed

2. A preference for state action over independent initiative

3. An innate distrust of ordinary people

4. A willingness to scapegoat sections of society, such as blacks,
women, lesbians and gays ... but also suburbanites, 'Essex man' (that's
like  New Jersey to you Americans), 'toxic families', football
'hooligans', 'male violence' etc etc.

5. A preference to see identities entrenched rather than revolutionised
or transcended (I am thinking here of Marx's view that the goal of the
working class is its own abolition, for example).
-- 
Jim heartfield