We don't need your steeking guidance. We're the left. We don't have to know where were are going or how to get there.
(Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi retrovai per una selva oscura, che la diritta via era smarrita.)
Andie
--- On Sat, 10/3/09, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] more noxious crap
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Saturday, October 3, 2009, 4:47 PM
>
> On Sat, 3 Oct 2009, SA wrote:
>
> >
> > By the way, I sort of accepted the premise of this
> post because it led to an interesting train of thought. But
> actually I don't think the above is true at all. Why is the
> opposite of conservative Obama-style liberalism?
>
> It isn't. I'm clearly not getting across. My
> whole point is that about the term "conservative" is that in
> a spectrum of sense it covers everything on the right from
> the most radical to the most centrist. They all call
> themselves conservatives, although they all mean it in
> different senses. There is a spectrum of continuous
> overlap.
>
> And the word liberal does not cover the same span on the
> left. The most radical elements on the left would
> never use that term to describe themselves, not in any sense
> at all.
>
> Michael
>
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