> i like "useful idiots." (the point: they may identify with the left on
> economic issues but, often, culturally they are right wing. that's not
> especially unusual. there are lots of people sympathetic to a leftist,
> marxist economic analysis who weep over the demise of "culture" and
> "civil society" wrought by the destructive forces of capitalism. etc.
> and so forth.)
>
But this is a good description of pretty much the entire socialist left in, say, 1870-1914.
In fact, isn't Engels' _Condition of the Working Class In England_ a lot of weeping for the demise of culture and civil society wrought by capitalism?
SA