[FoRK] Right-wing propaganda equating fascism with the left

[Jeff Bone]

On Jan 29, 2008, at 10:34 PM, J. Andrew Rogers wrote:

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> On Jan 29, 2008, at 7:22 PM, Jeff Bone wrote:
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>> Speaking of asses and the Republic(ans) --- what, weren't we? ---  
>> has anybody had a chance to read _Liberal Fascism: The Secret  
>> History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of  
>> Meaning_ by Jonah Goldberg?  This is becoming the right-wingnuts  
>> equivalent of The God Delusion --- a book that becomes a rallying  
>> point.  Over the last couple of weeks it's been talked up on every  
>> right-wing media outlet I sample.
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> The problem is that your analysis is openly and obviously knee-jerk  
> and dogmatic rather than thoughtful.

I didn't present it as anything else.  If somebody really wanted to  
dig into this, I'm sure there's a book contract or three to be had on  
both sides of the so-called "argument."

Some things (such as "the history of fascism demonstrates that it is  
more closely related to modern leftism or liberalism than it is to  
what we consider right-wing ideology") are prima facie to absurd to  
even address seriously.

BTW, James, lest we forget:  criticizing the right-wing doesn't make  
you left-wing.  The only person I see talking about things in us-vs- 
them terms --- is in fact you.  I'm about as left-wing as your right  
testicle. ;-)


jb