[lbo-talk] Liberalism and preemptive evil

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jun 6 06:53:31 PDT 2006


On Jun 5, 2006, at 8:24 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote:


> Perhaps you should try explaining that to Breinart & Radosh,
> since they seem intent on reviving the very sort of liberalism
> to which the New Left so vehemently objected to.

Hey, I used to bash liberals with glee. Now it seems like reciting the old high school cheers.

The very fact that they feel the need to "revive" that sort of liberalism is proof that it barely exists today, if at all. The "left" of the DP, such as it is, isn't terribly bellicose, but it's also pretty small. The mainstream of the DP isn't in any sense "liberal"; as Clinton himself put it, they're Eisenhower Republicans now.

Doug



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