I think of extremists as those who pursue the logic of an idea. I think of radicals as those willing to be as radical as reality. I don't see that they have much in common.
Joanna
----- Original Message ----- On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:57:01 +0000 (UTC) 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> One might argue that all extremists tend to moralism.
Speaking as a thoroughgoing extremist, I deny it.
In fact I would have said that moralism is one of the things that tends to prevent or undercut extremism. A moralist simply can't be extreme -- that impulse to issue letter grades always takes you back to the (hopefully) Gaussian curve.
Progressive but imperial -- B minus. Reactionary dreamer with redeeming anti-imperial top notes -- D plus.
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