The heart of a leftist

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>>So, Yoshie, can Stalinist be criticized and excoriatedwithout 
>>commiting the horrible vice of red-baiting?
>
>Nope. Stalinism can't be criticized without it turning into 
>red-baiting. Current or past U.S. policy toward *anything* can't be 
>criticized without it turning into Militant Atheistic Communism! 
>It's a nice closed circle, once you get inside it...
>
>
>Brad DeLong, who has spent the week reading the novels of Scottish 
>science-fiction author Ken MacLeod, in which the Fourth 
>International takes over the world... takes over two habitable 
>planets... and in self-defense uses comets to kill all post-human 
>super-intelligent life that has colonized Jupiter.

The point of Christine's post is that Brad & Justin as well are 
Stalinists in American political discourse.  And my point is that it 
is not the Right alone that is responsible for this type of political 
culture; liberals & leftists (loosely defined) engage in the same 
habit of using the word Stalinist as a form of epithet.  Americans 
can never get over the culture of Cold War, it seems.  Don't complain 
the next time someone red-baits _you_!

Yoshie