Date: 01 Nov 96 22:12:11 EST
From: robert scheetz <76550.1064-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: M-I: Left Discourse



Rob Schaap,


"I feel bound to respond that left-wing discourse could actually die if
"we're not careful - I meet plenty of inarticulately (politically, I mean)
"disaffected twenty-year-olds - they know something basic is very wrong, "but
"they've never been exposed to a coherently critical voice.  In my day,.... 

Yes, that's a point for me too; but I think it's been killed
this long time.  A deliberate long wave strategem of their
propaganda model, seems every 30 odd years Left Discourse
is laid waste...and the earth salted.

My generational experience is quite opposite to yours; we had to "re-invent
the wheel."  The post WWII repression achieved a radical discontinuity
in the Left tradition in the US.  The great movement people of the
'30's were effectively precluded from passing on their heritage,
and the Tradition had to be got up again from scratch in the '60's.

Obviously this provides that The Movement is always dominated
by immaturity (basically Freud & bourgeois liberalism), and
thence, unthreatening, easily neutralised politically,
and co-opted and turned to account propagandistically.

First World  ruling classes  much prefer such propaganda management policy
to police methods: censorship/terror...and are genuinely embarrassed to
be put in the same category with Argentina, South Africa, etc.
The specious liberal ideology of "human rights", prominent
among which is "free discourse" (here "First Amendment"), is
accorded great prestige and garnered, constantly and loudly, great
self complacency.

Bob Scheetz



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