> Christian Parenti has a piece in the current In These Times about the
> influence of Hayek on the right. Fifty years ago, when it loked like
> the world was heading permanently to the left, he & his gang had a
> very distinct agenda about the revival of classical "liberalism."
> They were extremely marginal, but held the power of ideas in very
> high regard. On the left today, we're in the opposite situation - we
> have a movement (not just the global justice movement, but even the
> Dean phenom), but few ideas. After the collapse of "socialism"
> there's a major intellectual vacuum. Until we fill it, we'll keep
> losing.
A very large section of the Left seems to have a one point programme, viz. Oppose the US.
Ulhas