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William Meecham <[log in to unmask]>
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The philosophy, work & influences of Noam Chomsky
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With regard to remaks below on Buchanan, many on the left are
beginning to see B. as an imporvement on the corporate candidates.
For one thind he points to the corp. (really the rich 1%) of the
gov't and the resulting reduction of the mid. class to desert status.
Where this leaves the working poor is undescribable.
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> Comrades,  I don't know about you,  but I haven't read too many Left
> articles about Montenegro.      It's clear that all our "principled"
> Left intellectuals,  are waiting until after a new round of
> anti-Yugoslav propaganda rises up in the capitalist press.      Then
> they will line up in file to announce to us,  how important it is to
> support "Montenegran Self Determination" against the evils of Serbian
> nationalism,  and the Devilish Milosevic.      Their "principles"  know
> no end,  but the beginning is always when the pro-war hysteria begins.
>
> In this context, many of us antiwar activists are running out of
> patience with Left silence about the need to struggle against
> militarism.      People like Pat Buchanan and Justin Raimondo even begin
> to look good, compared to the stale liberalism that has swept over the
> Socialist Left during the Clinton era.
>
> Go ahead, call names and get hysterical about all those that actually
> are willing to ally on some level with these Far Right forces.
> Personally I find it less repugnant, than all those claiming to be
> populists and Socialists that line up constantly as apologists for The
> Democratic Party.     Not to mention those that claim to oppose The
> Democrats, but still manage to trail along giving implicit support to
> Clinton's foreign policy.
>
> Enjoy the article below by Justin Raimondo.
> .........................Sincerely, Tony Abdo
>
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> http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html
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