RE: Historic spirals (fwd)

good  point, Andy. actually, it is the "radical center", post-liberal
leftists, new avantgarde, who normalizes capitalism in a way to
make it more acceptable to their audience...the only way they
can do this is by stigmatizing marxists as holders of "absolute truth",
"religous zealots"  or constructing a discourse of the "other",
"extremes", which they attach to people who deviate from the "norm". isn't
it easy? where? in what books have they read that marxism is a dogma? this
is just another rhetorical exercise and dogmatic way of thinking!! they
are themselves medieaval zealots. cheap text book readigs of Marx and
Lenin...very cheap!!

got to go to study!!


Mine
 


>This reminds me of Parenti's argument concerning the "moderate
>extremist."
>We hear in the mass media the terms "rightwing extremist" and the
>"radical
>left," but never about the "radical center" (although the term radical
>only fits well with the left, in my biased view).

>Of course, skipping the answer and rejecting the question does make life
>difficult for those advocating a reformist version of the status quo (not
>that there isn't merit in reform).

>Andy Austin