"Hate America" Left

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Oct 15 11:12:52 PDT 2001


Carl Remick wrote:


>>From: "Randy Steindorf" <grsteindorf at hotmail.com>
>>
>>Or a Marx said about the League of the Just motto: "All men are brothers,"
>>there are some men I don't want as brothers. Thus he replaced that motto
>>with "workers of the world, unite."
>
>Actually, I think Oscar Wilde said it best: "The brotherhood of man
>is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating
>reality."

Carl, I worry about your misanthropy. Humans aren't all that awful. Excuse my sentimentality, but I don't see how anyone can subscribe to any kind of radical politics and not have some degree of optimism and love at the base of it.

Doug



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