The Left's "Silver Lining"

[Doug Henwood]

And weirdly enough, though the piece takes liberals to task for not 
being ardent enough in their support of civil liberties - in contrast 
with such friends of freedom as Phyllis Schaffly - the cover package 
in this week's Nation is about Ashcroft & the crackdown.

Doug

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)