Fw: revised edition

I am submitting a revised, toned down edition of my earlier post. GK

-----Original Message-----
From: g kohler <gkohler@accglobal.net>
To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
Date: November 25, 1999 11:19 AM
Subject: spectrum of ideologies


>A political scientist who studied the ideological spectrum in the Germany
of
>the 1920s ("Weimar Republic"), Kurt Sontheimer, found something very
>interesting -- namely, the left-right spectrum of political ideologies is
>not a straight line but has the shape of a horseshoe or even a circle. He
>found that when you move from centrist positions to the left and then to
the
>far-left and when you move from a centrist position to the right and then
to
>the far-right you reach virtually the same point, just like moving along a
>horseshoe or along a circle either left or right will eventually get you to
>approximately the same ideological location.
>The ideological positions of the far right and the far left were both in
>favour of high degrees of violence and dictatorship.
   It seems to me that violence, especially post-revolutionary violence, is
>the mistake of 20th century socialism.

Here I would like to put in a plank for an excellent leftist network run by
Moore and Slakov, which is called "democratic renaissance". It is
anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist and could, in my opinion, serve as a
model for a worldwide activist network/party in terms of its awareness, its
spirit and the methods
contemplated.

>Gert Kohler
>Oakville, Canada
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