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Edward Feser: The Mustache on the Left [about delusion that right-wingers are closet totalitarians]
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| 01/08/2004
| Edward Feser
Posted on 01/08/2004 5:19:28 AM PST by Tolik
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To: sauropod; hellinahandcart; dighton; Poohbah; DPB101; backhoe; kristinn
Absolute MUST-READ corker of an essay! Short sample:
The Leftist might, in desperation, point to the "family values" that Nazis and fascists claimed, like contemporary conservatives, to champion. But this demonstrates, not a link between fascism and conservatism, but only the extreme decadence into which Leftist thinking has sunk. For the reason Nazis and fascists claimed to champion these things was that everyone in public life in the thirties and forties championed them, whatever their position on the political spectrum [...] Presumably the Nazis also spoke up for good grooming and table manners; no doubt there is a Leftist somewhere who would see this too as a telltale sign of right-wingery. [...] Roehm himself was a notorious sexual libertine, and his band of thugs, committed as they were to the cult of violence and the destruction of capitalist society, are reminiscent of nothing so much as the anarchist mobs of Seattle and Davos. The hormonally-driven Rage Against the Machine fan who's seen Fight Club twenty times and sports a Che Guevara T-shirt is far closer to the spirit of the brown-shirts than is the polite and dorky teenage Bible-thumper.
The supreme irony, however, is that the one great difference between National Socialism and Marxism -- the obsession of the former with race -- has in recent decades become, more even than hostility to capitalism, the hallmark of Leftist thinking.
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posted on
01/09/2004 1:07:18 PM PST
by
Stultis
To: Stultis
I am still working on my essay on the topic :-(. Soon.
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posted on
01/09/2004 1:26:42 PM PST
by
sauropod
(Graduate, Boortz Institute for Insensitivity Studies)
To: sauropod
Be sure and include some of your anti-anti-capitalist/american chants and slogans as an appendix!
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posted on
01/09/2004 1:50:06 PM PST
by
Stultis
To: Tolik
Excellent rebuttal to the leftist drivil (or dribble, in FRspeak) so prevalent today.
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posted on
01/09/2004 2:21:39 PM PST
by
metesky
("But Dad, it's only a wooden horse." - Paris of Troy)
To: Tolik
Bump for later study.
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posted on
01/09/2004 2:24:51 PM PST
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Ditto
( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
To: Tolik
Wow. I have been recently thinking on those topics.
This is a great article.
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posted on
01/09/2004 3:13:56 PM PST
by
NathanR
(California Si! Aztlan NO!)
To: Tolik
great piece!
To: Tolik
Just saw this article -- its great. This guy should have been on Dennis Miller instead of one of the other guys that couldn't defend the war on Iraq.
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posted on
01/27/2004 7:58:43 PM PST
by
Naspino
(What would we do if Al Franken body slammed Michael Moore and they merged?)
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