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

snitsnat snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com
Sat Jul 2 10:43:25 PDT 2005


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

"Finish your beer. There are sober kids in India."

-- rwmartin



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