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

[Chip Berlet]

Hey, John Halle, please actually check out the breadth of our research and
analysis at Political Research Associates before you assume (incorrectly)
that we primarily focus on the far right to the exclusion of critiques of
other oppressive groups and repressive government policies. Try actually
reading our web page...check out the extensive bibliographies and resources
we offer through the mail. We have three staff researchers, one of whom is
Jean Hardisty, our director, who has a new book from Beacon Press called
"Mobilizing Resentment" that barely mentions the far right. I am the only
researcher at PRA that tracks the far right, and that area is only a small
part of my work.

I don't mind agreeing to disagree with you, but it is tiresome to have to
deal with your false assumptions about what I do and what I think, or what
PRA represents, when a little effort on your part could allow your to have a
conversation based on reality rather than lazy misinformed stereotyping.

Most of our work at PRA involves critiquing electoral conservative
groups--both secular and religious--and government policies that reflect the
success of libertarian and reactionary coalitions.

PRA doesn't need to issue a report on the Catholic Right since an excellent
organizing book already exists:

Steve Askin, A New Rite: Conservative Catholic Organizations and Their
Allies, (Washington, D.C.: Catholics for Free Choice, 1994).

as well as the excellent academic work:

Michael W. Cuneo, The Smoke of Satan, Conservative and Traditionalist
Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism, (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1997).

-Chip Berlet

----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 1:26 PM
Subject: RE: Zizek = the Third Way (was Re: Zizek on Haider)


> John Halle wrote:
>
> >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?
>
> I've read quite a bit on Opus Dei coming from students of the far
> right. Don't know if Chip himself has written anything, but they're
> an old favorite.
>
> Doug
>