>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