Re: Liberalism (Was Re: Nietzsche)
On Jul 3, 2007, at 10:06 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 18:49 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
Yeah, I’m really wondering who these liberals are who advocate liberalism? These days you’ve got to be pretty far to the left - like NLG/CCR - to resist the imperatives of the terror war, for example.
But wasn’t that the kind of thing that liberals always embraced?
They loved the Cold War, if memory serves, and enlisted con brio — for
staff jobs, of course. What I mean is: there’s no “liberalism” to advocate that doesn’t include imperial war as an entailment.
Yup. A lot of the good works liberals get credit for - like civil
rights and union organizing - were actually the work of the CPUSA.
Doug