[lbo-talk] What Rightists Are Good At

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 9/28/06, Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
> If I had to venture a guess, I would assume it has
> something to do with the objective weakness and
> societal irrelevance of the left.  The feeling of
> weakness and irrelevance is then transformed into an
> intense hatred for others who are closest to "us."
> Maybe one has to feel one has to blame others on "our"
> side for "our" weakness.
>
> If you read the split documents from various Antifa
> groups in Germany in the last few years, you get a
> real sense of this.  The other side is inhibiting our
> political activity with their abstract critique, the
> other side has not fully understood this or that idea
> because of this or that character flaw, etc.

I don't believe that the Right are nice, but they are capable of
uniting on one or two issues that are most important to them -- above
all, low taxes -- by agreeing to disagree on lesser issues for the
time being and bring the Center along with them.  Leftists today, at
least in the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, etc., appear to
lack a comparable center of gravity, so to speak.
-- 
Yoshie
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