On Jul 22, 2004, at 8:23 AM, Chip Berlet wrote:
> Thus opposing conspiracism (the simple-minded progeny of
> anti-dialectical anti-logical demonization and scapegoating) is part of
> a strategy to build a popular front that does not get harvested by
> anti-regime fascists.
>
> If antisemitism is the socialism of fools, then conspiracism is the
> sucker punch by which fascists fool the left.
>
Do you see the left demonizing and scapegoating in their own right for their own ends? Isn't the demonization of conspiracism a form? Or perhaps there's a dialectic line in the sand of which I'm not aware and you have yet to cross to demonize.
Martin