Lerner bashing revisited (Re: Populism)

Frances Bolton (PHI) fbolton at chuma.cas.usf.edu
Wed Oct 7 09:03:28 PDT 1998


YEEE-HAWWW!! Time for more Lerner-bashing!

Lerner is a power-hungry autocrat. Isn't it ironic that he explicitly disavows authoritarianism? And, if he's a leftist, I am my grandmothers asshole.

frances

On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, James Devine wrote: ((SNIP))
> >This so called communitarian philosophy espoused by the Michael Lerner's
> >and Michael Sandel's seems to be infested with this creepy crawly stuff.
> >You hear it from all political sides nowadays, and I don't have to like
> >it.
>
> It must be noted that these folks explicitly disavow the authoritarianism
> that is at the heart of all of the definitions of fascism I know of.
> (Lerner, for one, used to count himself as a leftist. Does he still do so?)
> But because they don't deal with that authoritarianism very well,
> communitarianism sure does lean in the direction of fascism. Like a



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