[lbo-talk] me on Kuttner's latest

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Jan 12 09:49:51 PST 2008


Charles Peterson wrote:
>
> I see this review as a terrible example of "circular
> firing squad of the left". Doug, from the far left,

"Left" = "Socialism"

Ad hoc terms such as "far left," "center left," etc. refer to various differences, some minor, some major, within this framework. Both Kautsky and Lenin were leftists. Atlee was a leftist in his rhetoric, and it would be useful to keep that large trend within the term, though the circumstances of the death of Rosa Luxemberg reveal that the so-called "circular firing squads" might be necessary as a way of heading off quite non-metaphorical firing squads (or at least squads of club-wielding police under a "socialist" administration.

Carrol



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