Re: Buchanan and the Left

["Bryan A. Alexander" <bnalexan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Excellent point: Marxism here, as ever, offers the unique and most
practical response and analysis.
        Louis, and the remnants of the fascism seminar: is one of us
going to write up an analysis of P. Buchanwald (thanks, Ralphie) from the
MArxist interpretation of fascism point of view?



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On Fri, 23 Feb 1996 Godenas@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Reading over some of the stories in the left press (e.g. PWW, Militant,
> Workers Vanguard, Socialist Worker), one is struck how closely their analyses
> mirror that of Dole, Clinton, and the capitalist press itself.
>
> Much ado is made of Buchanan's backwardness (his criticisms of the gay rights
> movement, civil rights leaders, poverty organizations, the Israeli lobby,
> etc), while relatively little attention is focused on the economic issues
> that, apparently, resonate with large numbers of voters, especially those
> earning less than $30,000 per annum (the left's "natural" constituency).
>
> This evening on CNN's "Crossfire", the show's new "left" host (excuse me,
> Louis Proyect, but I must put Geraldine Ferraro's position in quotation
> marks), together with a lobbyist for the AFL-CIO blasted Buchanan for his
> earlier opposition to the minimum wage, subsidized day care, etc.  Not a word
> was said about Buchanan's denunciation of Goldman Sachs, the WTO or Moody's
> (other than the familiar "liberal"` shibboleths about "protectionism" not
> working, etc.).  It fell to the ultra reactionary Robert Kraft to actually
> "defend" those workers downsized by American industry, while Geraldine and
> our labor lobbyist pulled out all the stops for Clinton.
>
> I am wondering if we are going to repeat 1968, when the mass of workers went
> for Nixon and Wallace, 1980 & 1984(Reagan), and 1992 (Perot), while their
> "leaders" sit around making lame excuses for Humphrey, Carter, and Clinton.
>  How about a solid left critique of Buchanan, or, more importantly,
> Buchananism?
>
> Louis P., where are you when we actually need you?
>
>                                                        Louis Godena
>
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