[lbo-talk] generalizations and history (was Bradich and Lesbian HIStory)

[snitsnat]

At 01:27 PM 7/2/2005, Doug Henwood wrote:
>snitsnat wrote:
>
>>I don't think there's one active reader of LBO who's unaware of the 
>>difference between a paleocon, a Rockefeller republican, a christian 
>>rightwinger, a libertarain rightwinger, etc.
>
>Yeah, but we're connoisseurs of this sort of thing. When you read The 
>Nation, say, on the right, it's foreign territory to them. It's like they 
>need a Let's Go guide to figure out the main attractions. Or when Moyers 
>interviewed Lew Rockwell - it looked like he'd never known there were 
>anti-imperialist libertarians before.
>
>Doug

is moyers a lefty? i didn't think so, but..... i can't say that i pay a 
whole lot of attention to him.

i am interested, though, in what people think about my thought that 
rightwing ideology depends, at root, on mischaracterizing "the left" (which 
of course is everyone from lieberman to che to stalin to hitler).

kelley

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