Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:36:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Thomas Seay <entheogens-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: AUT: the idiot left (Needs a reality check)



--- Harald Beyer-Arnesen <haraldba-AT-online.no> wrote:
<<When people are calling for a US
defeat in military terms (rather than due to different
forms of 
political
pressure, including for instance mass-strikes and
blocades) it only
goes to show the degree of absurdity and complete
unreality of the
idiot left. >>

Harald and Chris, I haven't been following this
thread, so I dont want my statements to be taken as a
reflection on this "Algeria" thread.  However,
I have to applaud Harald on his comments on "the
degree of absurdity and complete unreality of the
idiot left"

>From talking to some on the Left (especially the
lovely vanguard people) it seems that they have the
idea that
we are going to turn imperialist war into war on the
capitalists, following Lenin's example.  As usual in
novel situations such as the present one, we can
expect most of the American Left to reward us with
its usual menu of cliches.

One person I know even told me yesterday that
we need to be very "careful" about the "pacifist"
tendency.
I of course, asked the guy to get his head out of his
ass before I continued the discussion.  Hell, I wish
"pacifism" were the main problem we had to worry
about.

I mean, I can't believe the depth of illusion into
which much of the Left (especially the vanguard left)
is plunged.

Thomas



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 weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living"

-Karl Marx

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