[lbo-talk] Fantasies of Left Liberalism

[Charles Brown]

Yes, but the left is at a disadvantage in this regard. The left is opposed
to the status quo. The right is in favor of it. So, the left sort of has to
write and speak about the present in a critical and negative way in contrast
to the right, no ?  How does the left encourage people to make radical
changes without emphasizing what is bad today ?

Charles

^^^^^^


> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Fantasies of Left Liberalism
> 
> I suspect that the image of the "gloomy leftist" is not due so much to
> experiences with actual depressive and/or depressing individuals as it
> is to the fact that so much Left writing seems to be an unrelieved list
> of disasters past, present or predicted. The people writing this
> material may be perfectly cheerful in person, but what emerges from
> their keyboards, pens, pencils or whatever is quite the opposite.
> 
> 
> Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org
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