On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:59:14 -0500 Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes:
>
>
> Jim Farmelant wrote:
> >
> >
> > If Mr. Woods had substituted "liberal" for leftist then that
> > article would be pretty close to the truth.
> >
>
> 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.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the libertarian economist, Murray Rothbard, was active in the Peace and Freedom Party in California and along with his friend and former Goldwater speechwriter, Karl Hess, was active in the antiwar movement.
> 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.
>
> 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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