Post by PoliticaPost by Lev LafayettePost by Politica'Members of front organizations must continually embarrass,
discredit and
Post by Lev LafayettePost by Politicadegrade our critics. When obstructionists become too irritating,
label them
Post by Lev LafayettePost by Politicafacist, or Nazi or anti Semitic... The association will, after
enough
Post by Lev LafayettePost by Politicareptition, become "fact" in the public mind.'
Moscow Central committee 1943. Source - Stephen Goode, "Radical
Leftovers,"
Post by Lev LafayettePost by PoliticaInsight on the News, November 22, 1999, P. 10.
Don't forget sufficient repitition of the claim that "the left" is
homogenous and receives its orders (and paychecks) from a central
committee in Russia. ;-)
Central Commitee not needed since every teachers college and university
in the West has regarded the script of the Franfurt School as Gospel.
Which Frankfurt School is that? The founding period which concentrated
on industrial political economy, the Horkheimer/Adorno period in exile
in the United States which concentrated on cultural criticism, the
Marcuse period which engaged in a Freud/Marx synthesis or the Habermas
period which concentrates on ordinary language philosophy and (lo! and
behold) _conservative_ functionalist sociology?
Hmmm.. That doesn't seem to be particularly homogenous either. A
so-called gospel that let's Pierce, Dewey, Parsons and Luhmann have
their say along with Hegel, Marx, Freud and Offe. Not so much a
"gospel" but rather an attempt to combine and recognize value in a
range of contributions. Quite moderate really.
Post by PoliticaYes, the Left is homogenous.
That's pure assertion. The left, being the organizations of social
change is by necessity heterogenous. The greater the degree of social
change sought, the greater the potential for difference. Why do you
think there's so many left organizations? Put two Trots in a room and
you get three splits. Your assertion is easily disproven by empirical
evidence.
Post by PoliticaInstead of " There is no other God but Me" as gospel, you
have... " Hate America " as gospel, and this coalesces all thought
into Frankfurt School ideology in an instant.
But I _like_ the United States. I _like_ freedom of speech, I _like_ a
nation of hard-working inventors, a melting pot of cultures, and
psychedelic Indians. I _like_ the Declaration of Independence, the
Bill of Rights, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Abraham Lincoln,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Walt Whitman, William S. Burroughs, Norman
Spinrad, Kurt Vonnegut Jnr, Gore Vidal, Steve Wright and Bill Hicks,
AT&T ("one policy, universal access") and Californian redwoods.
I _don't_ like Monroe, Reagan or Bush (I don't like jazz either).
Claims of the left being anti-american are just infantile excuses to
dodge the real questions of what _this_ particular U.S. government is
doing. One in fact could make a very good case that Bush is the one
who is actually "anti-American".
Post by PoliticaThat makes it
homogenous. The same psychological condition of all religions. A
belief in non tangible words to support an attitude.
You're wrong. Again. I wonder if you'll ever be mature enough to admit
error.