> Except the folks I'm talking about who were alienated from the
> ANSWER-led
> antiwar movement were also alienated from those same people because
> they
> didn't seem to give a shit when the Kosovars were being mass murdered.
> The
> indifference to the murder of those in the Twin Towers and the
> Kosovars are
> in that sense linked-- as long as they were allied with "imperialism",
> the
> left called for doing nothing to help them or bring their murderers to
> justice.
To be fair, I first read about the horrors of Yugoslavia in The Nation and Off Our Backs, long before the mass media picked it up.
Still, there's a real failure of human empathy that I think lies at the heart of many of the left's problems. Mirroring right-wing tactical innovations is fine and dandy and I'm all for it--picking up the callousness of their worldview is not.
Isn't it supposed to be an exclusive 'or' in "Socialism or Barbarism"?
John A