On Oct 2, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
...This kind of insult (snidely implying that Doug
is not a leftist...
I used the scare quotes because I agree with Disraeli that the
business of the Opposition is to oppose. Not to side with the
capitalist establishment, with Bush, Obama, Pelosi, Paulson, Rubin,
Clinton et. al. Lenin had some pretty harsh words for Kautsky not
because he supported the war (he didn't) but because he (ie., his
comrades in the Reichstag) refused to oppose the party Majority that
supported the war and submitted to party discipline in the vote on
"war credits."
By the way, the "Republican Right" is now set to back the bailout,
having gotten themselves an even bigger bribe in the form of even
bigger subsidies to the coal industry, the auto corporations, and
others...
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to
be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos
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