Zizek = the Third Way (was Re: Zizek on Haider)

[John Halle]

> 
> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 20:01:23 -0500
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: RE: Zizek = the Third Way (was Re: Zizek on Haider)
> 
> Nathan Newman wrote:
> 
> >This is why the rise of Haider (or Le Pen or Buchanan) justifiably scares
> >people.
> 
> Is Haider really worse than lots of U.S. governors, state 
> legislators, or Congresspeople? I'm asking that seriously. Pete 
> Wilson drew the approval of the Rockford/Chronicles crowd a few years 
> ago for suggesting that the U.S. redefine citizenship by blood rather 
> than geography (i.e., being born here wouldn't be enough). That's 
> pretty ugly. But it's also German citizenship law, isn't it? People 
> born in Germany of parents born in Turkey aren't citizens, right? Is 
> Haider that much worse than the German Christian Democrats? Again, I 
> really mean that as a question.
> 

Right, and to tie this to another thread, are the domestic far right
organizations (religious and otherwise) which liberals routinely get
hysterical about really any worse than the more repressive and activist
sectors of organized Catholicism. Can we expect a report from Berlet and
his pals on Opus Dei, and if not, why not?

John