[PEN-L:11617] Re: American Working Class & Anti-Imperialism (was Re: Empiricism)

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yoshie, is what you describe an indication of progressivism?  Were Buchanan,
Gingrich .... progressive when they did not want to go to Vietnam?  Or were
they just willing to send somone else to Vietnam?

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

> Well, I, for one, think that the American working class were and are by far
> more progressive than, say, Bogdan Denitch on the very question of
> anti-imeprialism!  At least American people don't want to see their sons &
> daughters (and their friends' sons & daughters) dying in whatever 'hot
> spots' that the mass media happen to designate.



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Michael Perelman
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