Fwd: Welcome to the land of the politically correct

[Gordon Fitch]

Gordon said:
> >Yet this outcome need not have been so, had most of the
> >visible Left not been wedded to notions of State power and
> >governmental intervention -- _bourgeois_ State power and
> >_bourgeois_ governmental intervention -- as the solution 
> >to almost every problem.  And the beat goes on.

Archer.Todd at ic.gc.ca:
> Wasn't part of Schulman's observations in the first chapter that the
> "visible Left" (BTW isn't that the political version of the Visible
> Man/Woman <grin>) was "anti-government" to begin with ("tune in, turn on,
> drop out")?  Seems to me this form of the "Left" was more often in the
> spotlight than those who weren't garnering media attention with their whole
> "reject society and create a new (tailored micro-society) one" agenda.

I was thinking more of the 20th century in general than just
the late 1960s, especially the last 30 years of it.  One could 
analyze the failures of the hippies at length, but there would 
be no one to receive the criticism -- the hippies "won", and,
as I've pointed out before, victory is death.