[lit-ideas] Re: Iran (2), First Front

  • From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 23:19:33 -0500

The way you say it, or the way I'm hearing it, makes Liberal Democracy, 
especially coupled with Marxist Liberal Democracy, sound pejorative.  I am NOT 
a Marxist, but I think it's safe to say that Marxism, like Christianity, has 
never been tried.  The Soviet Union had this weird Stalinist horror thing 
whatever it was.   Judy can correct me, but I think England today has a form of 
"Marxism" (even possibly including ownership of the means of production in the 
form of nationalized industries).  Unbridled capitalism is what England and the 
U.S. had in the 19th century.  It was pretty ugly.  Why anyone would want that 
back is beyond me.  Leave it to the Chinese to take capitalism and harness it 
to serve totalitarianism, fascism by another name.  Fascism, communism, I never 
really saw the difference.  Ironically, pharma writing their own legislation 
smacks of fascism.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Lawrence Helm 
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 2/3/2006 11:02:12 PM 
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Iran (2), First Front


You are a tough nut, Irene.  Liberal Democracy is our form of government.  It 
is the term used by social scientists.  It includes the U.S. and every Western 
nation.  It includes Japan and several eastern nations.  It is a technical term 
to be applied to the Western form of free economies and personal freedoms.  
What we have been encountering to some extent here on Lit-ideas are nuances 
within Liberal Democracy, from the Welfare State on the Left to the 
Conservatives on the Right  One can cross over the line into a 
non-Liberal-Democracy and advocate fascism (which isn't happening here) or 
Communism which is the strict form of Marxism which also isn?t happening here.  
The Communists did exert influence in this country and those who remain in this 
Liberal Democracy but espouse or lean toward the anti-American views of the 
Communist propagandists are called Leftists.  The Soviet Union has gone belly 
up and destroyed their compass but they continue the battle against evil 
America 
 just the same.  Think of Ward Churchill and Noam Chomsky.

Lawrence

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