[lbo-talk] the World Can't Wait

[Cseniornyc at aol.com]

Charles Brown makes some good points here. Again, it calls my attention  that 
in some left circles there is this careful, almost polite and deferential  
use of strong political terms. I remember a couple of years ago I went to a  
United For Peace  antiwar meeting and the moderator insisted that  we shouldn't 
use the term "anti-imperialist" because "it'd scare people"  off! . Amazing. 
During the last president`al campaign it was also suggested to  avoid sounding 
anti-religious for fears of alienating the faithful. At this rate  a successful 
campaign of stripping the left of its basic, long standing  terminology will 
be accomplished soon in the name of politeness.
In the meantime , a ruthless impolite right wing does not hesitate in using  
their old rude shibboleths such as calling "communists", stalinists" on any  
one on the left. Why can they, why can't us? 
Cristobal Senior 
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