Ethical foundations of the left

[Michael Pugliese]

No doubt faith in liberalism comes from a source other than an
argument in favor of it.  :->

  Heh, substitute, "Stalinist version of
'communism' ," for liberalism, here and it applies to others immune to
historical evidence or empirical data.

>No one here says that we shouldn't practice reason-giving in a public
sphere.  Those who disagree with you are merely saying that it has a
far more modest place in politics in particular & human lives in
general than you or Habermas is prepared to acknowledge.

Yoshie

  And wasn't as many have remarked esp. from Frankfurt Schoolish tendencies,
it the fact that Stalinist diamat and historical revisionism functioned as
an ideological reversal of the reality of a class society which used as
legitimating cover a, "marxist, " rhetoric?
http://www.google.com/search?q=marxism-leninism+as+state+legitimation+ideolo
gy+in+the+Soviet+Union+Frankfurt+School

Thesis Eleven Index of Authors Thesis Eleven An International ...
... Soviet Union’, 4 ... the Soviet System ... of Legitimation and ... Work
Ideology’, 17 ... the Frankfurt
School to ... Welfare State’, 41 ... Marx, Marxism-Leninism and ...
www.scim.vuw.ac.nz/comms/ThesisEleven/authorindex.htm
International Gramsci Society Newsletter, Number 2, March 1993
... the Frankfurt School ... New School for ... and legitimation. It ...
Communism: Ideology in ... of Marxism-Leninism.
Using ... the Soviet Union's "historical ... State ...
www.soc.qc.edu/gramsci/news/newslet2.html
Michael Pugliese