[lbo-talk] Re: lbo, a den of right-wingers?

Mark Bennett mab at straussandasher.com
Wed Aug 31 13:27:34 PDT 2005


Chris Doss wrote

--- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote: Right wingers are naturally attracted to fascist views because they are emotionally and cognitively crippled and use fascist ideology as a mental crutch. Specifically, these are the people who for whatever physiological or psychological reasons do not handle very well uncertainty, ambiguity and unfamiliar situations.

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Actually the Fascists (with a capital "F") were associated with experimentalism, dynamism, and futurism, and had genuine, and I add extremely innovative, artists -- Pound, D'Annunuzio, Junger. We need a different word for the people you're talking about (maybe Thuggist).

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"Republicans"?



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