[lbo-talk] Liberalism and preemptive evil

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Jun 5 16:15:08 PDT 2006


On Jun 5, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote:


> For all their faults, one positive achievement of the New Left
> was their realization that it was
> the liberals who were the main enemy,

Don't you think that this perception is a little obsolete? Classic 30s to 60s liberalism is dead. This anti-liberalism would make sense when there was serious political unrest, and liberals were trying to co-opt the radical potential of the moment, but that ain't the case these days.

Doug



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