Apparently you can't read, either. I said Bernstein )thought_ he was an orthodox marxist. What part of oratiorio obliqua don't you understand? You got your PhD at Toronto, you say? Strange, I know a number of able and intelligent people who teach at Toronto. And if you cannot see that Gore is a right winger, I don't care if you have no respect me. I have no respect for you. --jks
>From: LeoCasey at aol.com
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: A "Self-Respecting" Socialist
>Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:14:33 EST
>
>I am liberal democrat (small "l," small "d"), but I don't see from what
>perspective a
>self-respecting "radical democrat" can treat big Al as anything but a right
>
>
>Now let me get this right: you are a liberal democrat who thinks that Al
>Gore
>is a right-winger and Eduard Bernstein an orthodox Marxist. I am not sure
>where that leaves George Bush, much less Trent Lott, and Rosa Luxemburg and
>Vladimir Lenin on this political spectrum, but I am left with on question:
>Why in the world would I take someone with this set of political analyses
>seriously when he decides I can't be a "self-respecting" radical democrat?
>
>Leo Casey
>United Federation of Teachers
>260 Park Avenue South
>New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)
>
>Power concedes nothing without a demand.
>It never has, and it never will.
>If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
>Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who
>want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and
>lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
>-- Frederick Douglass --
>
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