At 7:49 PM 1/29/96, Justin Schwartz wrote: >On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> "rights"? That leads you to the elitist dead-end of litigation and Supreme >> Court worship. Any liberals out there who can help me out? >> >Hey, Doug, go easy on us (future) radical lawyers. Litigation isn't so >bad. You got a problem with Brown v. Board of Education or Roe v. Wade, to >start with? Obviously not their substance, but there's a deep, largely unexamined elitism behind liberal litigationism, in which the courts are used as a substitute for mass organization. The liberal elite shares the Founders' (and talk about a cult of personality, the thing about the Founders and their sacred text, the Constitution!; for a fine debunking of all that see Dan Lazare's new book, The Frozen Republic) distrust of the masses, seeing them as a volatile force to be contained. So when the political tide reversed, and a bunch of troglodytes were appointed to the federal bench, the liberals were caught short, with nowhere to turn but Anthony Lewis. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>
