>On 13 Feb 2006 at 17:22, Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> Some attributions aside, I'm not an ultraleftist.
>
>Where do you separate ultra-left from left?
>I'm sure Bill O'Reilly would consider you an ultra-leftist but what
>does that designation mean to you in terms
>of what you support or oppose?
>I hope this doesn't look like a snide question because it isn't
>intended to be.
Not snide - it's a term of art among the hard left (of which I still consider myself a member). Among the defining characteristics are to dismiss the mainstream parties as indistinguishably bourgeois, and dismiss electoral politics as somewhere between a waste of time and a malignant diversion from the serious business of politics, which is bringing about the revolution, however that is supposed to happen.
Doug