Meanwhile, Americans are
> constantly bombarded by a business/political press spouting
> liberal-democratic propoganda from the "center-left", and a
> business/religion press that spouts hypocritical sermons and
> anarcho-capitalist, libertarian propoganda from the Right.
Please refer to this latter group of people as the "fake libertarians."
Some of us are trying to reclaim the word libertarian with its original left-libertarian meaning.
Please feel free to throw rocks at Cato's glass house on K Street. Exxon will foot the cleanup bill. ;-)
> Where is the Big-Government
> Left or the Small Government Left or even the
> Huge-But-Not-All-Powerful-Government Left?
Disappearing, I would hope.
> We're Green, Indigenous, Feminist, Sustainable, Organic,
> Multi-Cultural, Anti-Racist, Anti-Imperialist, Radical and
> Revolutionary but we're not Socialist.
Speak for yourself. I'm just an anarchist.
> I happen to think that what we're hearing in America is the sound of
> the Capitalist Revolution starting to hit the rocks, so I'm not that
> distressed. But I also think we have to get about creating a program.
I think you are a bit too optimistic about Capitalism running aground. I thought that the American part of that tanker would be experiencing some severe problems this year, but it just hasn't happened. I think Capitalism has many tricks up its sleeves, one of them being all of those ne gaming systems that just came out to distract the masses.
My beef with leftists who spend their time predicting the end of capitalism is that their practice turns into a kind of smug waiting around for shit to hit the fan. In my playbook, you need to go out there and help history along. This was one thing we were doing well in the post-Seattle movement.
More rocks, less Lacan.
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