Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Wed, 02/20/2008 - 15:28.
I am not trying to "absolve" the left. I am trying to set the record straight. The left-libertarian tradition was and is a dissident current. It has, at times (e.g. Spain in the '30s), been a very significant one.
Cosmopolitanism, solidarity, workers' rights, social justice and freedom are values that belong to the left. Equivocating on that may be very fashionable right now, but it is precisely what opens the door to the populist right's attempted leveraged buy-out of what's left of the left. (Or, in the case of cosmopolitanism, the neoconservative right's attempted buy-out.)
"The war" certainly isn't the only one going on the planet, but that's rather beside the point. One hopes it is not necessary to elaborate on the rank hypocrisy of Bush's claims to be defending democracy, secularism and women's rights in Iraq (or anywhere else).
You are still failing to spell rococo. And the sheer crudity of idiot-left pseudo-thought makes a tradition of minute and over-elaborate ornamentation a poor metaphor, in my opinion.
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I am not trying to "absolve" the left. I am trying to set the record straight. The left-libertarian tradition was and is a dissident current. It has, at times (e.g. Spain in the '30s), been a very significant one.
Cosmopolitanism, solidarity, workers' rights, social justice and freedom are values that belong to the left. Equivocating on that may be very fashionable right now, but it is precisely what opens the door to the populist right's attempted leveraged buy-out of what's left of the left. (Or, in the case of cosmopolitanism, the neoconservative right's attempted buy-out.)
"The war" certainly isn't the only one going on the planet, but that's rather beside the point. One hopes it is not necessary to elaborate on the rank hypocrisy of Bush's claims to be defending democracy, secularism and women's rights in Iraq (or anywhere else).
You are still failing to spell rococo. And the sheer crudity of idiot-left pseudo-thought makes a tradition of minute and over-elaborate ornamentation a poor metaphor, in my opinion.