Fw: [lbo-talk] Paranoid Styles, Soviet and American (was Hamas "a project of Shin Bet")

[Michael Pugliese]

On 10/21/06, Jesse Lemisch <utopia1 at attglobal.net> wrote:
> Yoshie is now pulling unacceptably low-down psychiatric tricks of the kind
> generally used against the left. Disagreeing constitutes paranoia. Soon
> we'll be hearing again, as we haven't heard since the fifties, of the
> psychiatric factors that drove the abolitionists, perhaps of the New Left.
> "ze child vants to take over from ze fazzer."

   Cf., "The Conflict of Generations, "

 http://www.questia.com/library/book/the-conflict-of-generations-the-character-and-significance-of-student-movements-by-lewis-s-feuer.jsp
the 1969 tome by ex-Communist Lewis Feuer that pathologized student
radicalism from the assasination of the Archduke Ferdinand to SDS.
Bruno Bettelheim (himself an extremely abusive clinician and Father,
if my memory of a book review in The Nation on a couple of recent
biographies, is correct) on the New Left, "rich, spoiled brats." Or
Psychological Correlates of New Left. Ideology. S. Robert Lichter and
Stanley Rothman and Roots of Radicalism: Jews, Christians and the New
Left Stanley Rothman, S. Robert Lichter Hardcover / Oxford Univ Pr /
October 1982 . Tons of neo-con Freudianism therein.

   This mode can be indulged in by Leftists as well, as when a drunk
William A. Williams called the New Left, "orangutans."

-- 
Michael Pugliese