On Jul 3, 2007, at 10:06 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
> 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.
Yup. A lot of the good works liberals get credit for - like civil rights and union organizing - were actually the work of the CPUSA.
Doug