[lbo-talk] Liberalism (Was Re: Nietzsche)

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Tue Jul 3 19:06:38 PDT 2007


On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 18:49 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:


> Yeah, I'm really wondering who these liberals are who advocate
> liberalism? These days you've got to be pretty far to the left - like
> NLG/CCR - to resist the imperatives of the terror war, for example.

But wasn't that the kind of thing that liberals _always_ embraced? They loved the Cold War, if memory serves, and enlisted con brio -- for staff jobs, of course. What I mean is: there's no "liberalism" to advocate that doesn't include imperial war as an entailment.



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