Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Why so "Liberal"?

This is lovely:

We keep letting the totalitarian define the words.

Stop calling the totalitarians “liberals”.

Today’s totalitarians in America are a complex mix of ideological leftovers of history (anti-Western racism, populism, marxism in its poor soviet interpretation which is even more miserable than “true” marxism, Third-World-ism of the post-WW II times, jacobinism, dirigisme of the Lenin- Stalin -Mao style, thuggery of the Pol-Pot style, unionism of the Twenties, trendy leftism of the “caviar-left” of Western Europe, elitism, intellectualism with nihilistic roots)…and probably more…

ALL, but not “liberals”.

From commenter Sherab Zangpo at Pajamas Media

"Leftovers of History". Elegant phrase. Must remember.

He forgot the "Progressivism" of Woodrow Wilson & the Eugenicists (sounds like a band)...otherwise, quite a nice list.

The Gunslinger
Enemy of the Imperial State

2 comments:

  1. Hmmm...."left-overs"...."Orts"?....and I think I saw WW & The Eugenicists at CBGBs during my "punk" days in the early 80s. No,wait...that was The Sick Fucks.Same thing...

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  2. tj, you always crack me up....

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