Ideology

[Richard Fiero]

 From Out Of The Blue:
>Let me ask another: why is that the radical Left finds
>itself in bed with radical right protectionists and
>nationalists on this issue?

A criticism of the left by libertarians and anarcho-capitalists 
is that the left is brain dead statists. It might be reasonable 
to suppose that a nation state exists in order for its citizens 
to publicly own things in common and to codify and administer 
jurisprudence and tort law for the public benefit. It's 
perfectly clear that a segment of citizens would press the 
state to protect their livelihoods. Such a segment might have 
three components: those familiar with and involved in labor 
struggles; those who object to unimpeded private ownership and 
corporate rule; private ownership that stands to lose something 
via cross-border transactions. There is no Left and Right 
dichotomy here. However, there are many fascinating aspects to 
the MAI WTO IMF FTAA NAFTA issues. Democracy can be quite messy. Tough.

The following is also very interesting. What is "New Left" 
other than a completely bogus concept for use in debating 
society masturbation? Civil rights struggles and the 
anti-Vietnam eras were thankfully exploited by Trots, Sparts 
and Stalinoids to drive wedges into the fissures created by the 
contradictions of capitalism. Show me this New Left. Marxist 
criticism has been assimilated and sanitized. The eight-hour 
work day was itself a messy and drawn out fight. Many heads 
bashed, many workers shot and killed.
The James Berger remark below is partly interesting and partly nonsense.
Timmy McVeigh is my hero.

Doug Millison wrote:
>That is one element of the complex forces that Pynchon shows at work to
>betray the New Left struggle. How do Brock and Frenesi get to be that way?
>What pushes Pokler along his path?  What sends Slothrop on his quest?
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jane [mailto:lycidas2 at earthlink.net]
>Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 12:06 PM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re:
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> > [28] This relation between structure, desire, and inner
> > fascism  seems to describe the political sadomasochism of Brock
> > andFrenesi and to provide a theoretical context for the
> >  catastrophes of the New Left in the late 60s.
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> > >From   Cultural Trauma and the "Timeless Burst": Pynchon's
> >                Revision of Nostalgia in _Vineland_[1]
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> >                                   by
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> >                              James Berger
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>"In search of a master in search of slave..."