>Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 15:45:18 -0500
>From: Kelley
>Subject: Re: Good and Bad: Banality of moral comparisons >over time
>similarly, some on the left engage in such moralizing. they >don't wish
"to
>go back" but "go forward". they justify the renunciation of, >say,
>participatory democratic political processes as merely bourgeouis as
>opposed to the progressiveness of democratic centralism or the
reunuciation
>of free speech as bourgeois claptrap that ought to be tossed to the dust
>bin of history and replaced with some progressive form of "correctness"
>(Charles Brown, esq).
Good old Charles doesn't appear to be saying much these days, but I don't ever recall him advocating anything much stronger in the way of free-speech restrictions than the incitement to racial hatred laws of England or France.
dd
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