Why don't you take up the objection to the vanden Heuvel/Rogers nonsense? "...contradicts most progressive activism today" may not be damning criticism.
And the similarities of fascism, Stalinism, and the New Deal in defending their various elites should be pretty clear at this remove. --CGE
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Max Sawicky wrote:
> This is demented bullshit. It contradicts most progressive activism
> today, albeit in contentless way. -mbs
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> . . . The liberals' vision of big government is coercive to its
> core. Eric Hobsbawm showed that the model for the organization of their
> desired society used by many social democrats in the interwar period was
> the German War Plan of 1914. FDR's New Deal was basically cribbed from
> Mussolini's New Order." (Cockburn & St. Clair)
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