The state of the union

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Oct 13 10:38:24 PDT 2001


Carl Remick wrote:


>That the right can whip itself into a rage about an American left so
>small and marginalized suggests that it, too, is unhinged by fear,
>and can only displace it by a knee-jerk refighting of yesterday's
>cold war culture wars.

Hmm, yes, but I also like the Workers Vanguard line that this fear is justified - that the bourgeoisie lives in perpetual terror of the possilility the masses will revolt, and so they must police the ideological borders vigorously. It's a shred of hope, at least.

Doug



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