> CB: Not tongue in cheek . What you say is important, and should be
> discussed more often on the left , and not
> suppressed or censored as socalled conspiracy theory.
> My post is a contribution to the argument that the
> current generalized disdain on the left for so-called
> on the left is a foolish aping of the monopoly media
> and Reagan era ideological stupidity.
> There are many substantive conspiracies
> by the ruling class that should be included
> in left analyses such as you do here. Good
> point you make. There are many conscious
> efforts of the USG to counteract communist
> ( no quotes) and other influences. The ruling
> class has a lot of "agency", and does not operate
> as an impersonal "system" at many levels. To fail
> to learn this would be to fail to learn from history.
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This is to collapse the distinction between strategic public policies to avert large scale political competition and conspiracy, in order to rescue the latter term from pejorative uses. Why not just talk/write about public policies and their intended and unintended consequences, lest you slip down the slope to the problems associated with functionalism...............