[lbo-talk] Lind

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Tue Oct 14 22:37:03 PDT 2003


On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 16:41:20 -0700, Joseph Wanzala <jwanzala at hotmail.com> wrote:


> furthermore, this was not a right-left coalition - it was *beyond* those
> static ideological categories that do not allow for the much more
> fungible political reality. Thus, your channeling of Charles Brown seems
> quaint and atavistic in the era of neo-liberalism and Third Way, where
> Tony Blair flows effortlessly from a love affair with Clinton to Bush 43,
> and many leftists of yesteryear have morphed into freemarketeers. Indeed,
> even the ANC luminaries in South Africa (not even counting the
> nationalist petty-bourgeoisie element) have now all become petty
> capitalists, if not Thatcherites. You are fond of shoe-horning everything
> into your turgid left-right framework, oblivious to actual ideological
> currents in the real world that defy that old taxonomy.
>
> Joe W.

"Beyond Right and Left, " can be as benign as that New Age Marilyn Ferguson or Mark Satin or Corinne McLaughlin. Or an unconscious echo of the Cold War ideology of Daniel Bell in, "The End of Ideology. Or the fascist Third Position, "Hitler and Mao, United In Struggle!" http://www.savanne.ch/right-left.html This is a selection of WWW pages that provide evidence material and resources on (extreme) right-wing influences on "left-wing" / "emancipatory" politics and campaigns, about sloppily formulated arguments in leftist campaigns that can be reused by the extreme right, and about collusion and direct alliances between left-wing and right-wing groups.

http://www.nwcitizen.com/publicgood/reports/milfev2.html The Fallacy of "Neither Left nor Right" by Janet Biehl

http://www.savanne.ch/right-left-materials/New-right-seduces.html New right seduces the left to sign anti-war declaration.

http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Globalization.html

http://www.publiceye.org/rightwoo/rwooz6.html

http://www.publiceye.org/Sucker_Punch/clues.html The Sucker Punch of Right/Left Coalitions.

http://www.google.com/search?q=beyond+right+and+left+third+position

http://english.pravda.ru/politics/2002/01/17/25828.html

http://www.rosenoire.org/index.php Blood and Soil!

http://www.skadi.net/forum/showthread.php?t=3287 http://www.bolcheviques.org/TEXTOS/NB/ANTI- GLOBALIST%20RESISTANCE%20BEYOND%20LEFT%20AND%20RIGHT.htm ANTI-GLOBALIST RESISTANCE BEYOND LEFT AND RIGHT: AN EMERGING TREND THAT IS DEFINING A NEW PARADIGM IN REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE http://www.thirdway.org/

None very good bases for a principled, progressive politics.

-- Michael Pugliese



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