Re: The Intellectual Origins Of America-Bashing By Lee Harris

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sun 08 Dec 2002 - 20:42:18 GMT

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    > Interesting article...but yet again, one in which the "left" (meaning,
    > anything opposed to american hegemony) is lumped into the framework of
    > Marxism...as if there's nothing more to the Left than that. the
    > anti-globalization protests were nor orchestrated or dominated by
    > marxists.
    >
    > it's great propaganda, though, to associate alternatives with
    > something that most americans have categorized as a failure. by
    > constantly pushing the idea that the Left = Marxism, it also makes the
    > association that the Left = Failure. yet the most creative thinking
    > about alternative solutions to various crises and situations comes out
    > of the non-Marxist Left which is mostly kept out of public discourse.
    > further, by eliminating the possibility of adaptive, as opposed to
    > paradigmatically mechanistic, models for change, the hegemony can
    > ensure that no matter how detrimental its actions may be, there is
    > nothing that can be legitimately opposed to it in the public
    > population.
    >
    The non-Marxist left is as ably represented by, say, Christopher Hitchens as the non-Fascist right is represented by, say, Andrew Sullivan.
    >
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