[lbo-talk] Follow Up to Cold War Liberalism and Vietnam

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Sun Jan 31 16:39:43 PST 2016


Joanna beat me to it. Yes, Carrol got it exactly right.

I have never been able to get over my amazement at what you might call the Imperial Left, or the Interventionist Left. Because this dream of the benign use of imperial power against 'tyrants' -- itself a childish, cartoonish category -- is not confined to mere liberals; it's often found among people whose very underwear is made from superannuated Red flags. It's as if these Supercommies were mentally elbowing their way toward the controls of the Death Star.

I could name names, but that phrase has a disagreeable ring.

On 1/31/16 5:42 PM, JOANNA A. wrote:
> That was outstanding.
>
> Joanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>The debate over the
> various "liberated zones" in the 20th-c as to whether they were "socialist"
> or not has always been misleading.



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