--- Brad Mayer <bradley.mayer at sun.com> wrote:
> Not surprising, as all the leading lights of the US
> left - Chomsky,
> Nader and of course Vidal, are "Old Republicans":
> The want to restore
> the US to the virtues of the Old Republic, corrupted
> by the National
> Security State, etc. Hence the preeminence of moral
> politics and the
> rhetoric of moral outrage at the "betrayal of
> republican virtue", rathen
> than that of a realpolitik of power (and how to get
> power) and a
> rhetoric directed at working people.
>
> Outraged Old Republicanism has simply filled the
> vacumn left by the
> absence of a socialist left since Eugene Debs' time,
> a vacumn gratis the
> old CPUSA. It will be quite inadequate to the tasks
> we face now.
>
> -Brad Mayer
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:38:04 -0700 (PDT)
> From: mike larkin <mike_larkin2001 at yahoo.com>
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: [lbo-talk]
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
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>
>
http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/Chronicles/June2003/0603Kauffman.html
>
> "So what are the policy prescriptions of this
> dangerous radical? Eliminate the income tax and
> devolve the taxing power to states and
> municipalities.
> Call off the ruinous drug war. Decentralize
> political
> power along the lines of the Swiss cantonal system.
> Bring home our troops. Slash the “atrocious taxes
> that
> subsidize this permanent war machine.” Decimate the
> budget of the War Department (coyly renamed the
> “Department of Defense” by the amusingly surnamed
> President True-Man). Fine ideas all, and within the
> Jeffersonian tradition. Gore Vidal ought to be a
> revered elder of the libertarian side of the
> American
> right. "
>
>
>
> --
>
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>
> Brad Mayer
>
>
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