carl wrote:
> Granted, but remember where this guy is coming *from* -- Szamuely was by
his
> own admission a gung-ho supporter of the Vietnam War and now his greatest
> fear is "the unrestrained global tyranny of the United States." Such
> right-wing apostasy is, in the words of S. Johnson, "like a dog's walking
on
> his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done
at
> all."
but you know what i hear in szamuely's article? fascism. it might be apostasy for the relatively-respectable right in the US, but in europe and australia, this is brownshirt stuff. they too have a critique of capitalism, though as in szamuly's case, they don't say 'capitalism', they ethnicise and or nationalise it (hence, US tyranny); and they don't say 'workers', but present the category of the oppressed in similarly ethnicised or nationalised terms.
i know you yanquis get excited when people pick on the US (how could you not?); but i'm much less inclined to enjoy those moments.
Angela _________