Quoting Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>:
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> Jim Farmelant wrote:
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> > If Mr. Woods had substituted "liberal" for leftist then that
> > article would be pretty close to the truth.
> >
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> Indeed. At the beginning of the Anti-Vietnam War struggle, Carl Oglesby
> hoped that leftists and _Taft Republicans_ (overlapping but not quite
> the same as the old "Isolationist" position) could be united against the
> war. I've often thought that the second half of the 20th century might
> have been less bloody if Taft instead of Eisenhower had become president
> in 1952. Taft was a reactionary prick, but he was _not_ an imperialist.
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> On "squeamishness" about war. There was a hassle on this list (I believe
> at the time of the humanitarian bombing of Yugoslavia) as to whether
> "pacifist" was a legitimate label for those of us opposing that bombing.
> (I was one of those who sharply repudiated the label for our position.)
>
> Carrol
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