[lbo-talk] Patriotism is Relative, Not Absolute

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--- > i certainly don't think you believe that US
culture
> is superior, but I 
> do think you believe that liberal enlightenment
> ideals are superior to, 
> say, feudalistic ideals. that's the only reason I
> put in the qualifier.
> 
> 

Oh, absolutely. And so do you, and so does everyone
except bin Ladin, Bush, and other fundamentalist
lunatics. I also believe, as you do, that socialist
and feminist ideals are superior to capitalist and
patriarchal ones. But there's nothing specially
patriotic about this. It's just nonrelativism about
universal morality. I don't think the US has any
special lock on Enlightenment ideals, much less on
socialist and feminist ones. In fact it has far less
of a grip on socialist ideals than many countries, and
is that respect inferior to them.

jks

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