[lbo-talk] Left on this, Right on that.

Bhaskar Sunkara bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com
Sun Feb 21 22:36:34 PST 2010


I forgot about the existence of "left-nationalism." I've always considered it a contradiction in terms.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:


> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara
> <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> I have no problem with forming marriages of convenience with isolationists
> > in the anti-war movement, but let's get something straight... the "left"
> > ideal is radically interventionalist and interntionalist, not
> > isolationalist.
> >
>
> You mean your "left" ideal? If whatever revolutionary currents exist can
> drive the Western powers into isolationist positions within my lifetime,
> I'll be more than satisfied (and not feel the need to settle accounts
> further through my own meddling). The internal affairs of Spain and
> Nicaragua are the proper business of Spaniards and Nicaraguans,
> respectively.
>
> --
> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
> lytlað."
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