[lbo-talk] How to explain things to (right-wing) libertarians

[Carl Remick]

Conceding that coalition-building may be a regrettable necessity, I think 
experience shows that the secret to any kind of successful bargaining is to 
*start* from an extreme, unreasonable, uncompromising position ;-)

Carl


>From: andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
>
>No compromise with anyone! No coalitions with anyone
>who disagrees with me! That includes you too, Carl.
>
>--- Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I think libertarians' fetishism of the individual
> > brings a solipsistic toxin
> > to social policy that would be fatal to genuinely
> > leftist politics in the
> > long run.  I oppose supposedly pragmatic coalitions
> > between leftists and
> > retrograde thinkers like libertarians and religious
> > believers.  If humanity
> > is to have a future, societies must be governed by
> > secular collectivism of
> > some sort.  With free enterprise systematically
> > destroying the global
> > environment and world religiosity breeding insane
> > tribal wars, this is no
> > time for leftists to compromise on the principles of
> > socialism and
> > secularism.

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