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<pre wrap="">On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Damien Broderick <a
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<pre wrap="">On 7/11/2011 11:30 AM, Kelly Anderson wrote:
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<pre wrap="">There aren't many groups with the level of
political diversity we have here from near communists, to anarchists.
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<pre wrap="">You think there are posts here from "near communists"? What's an example?
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Jeff Davis described himself the other day with these words:
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<pre wrap="">For the record, while I warmly embrace both "liberal" and "hippie", I
currently favor, for myself, the term "hard left progressive".
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While that is not communist, it's in the the same basic neighborhood
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What a hoot! :-)<br>
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Communists (= dictatorship of the proleteriat, state ownership of the
means of production, violent overthrow of the bourgoisie, etc etc) are
as far to the left of "hard left progressives" as "hard left
progressives" are to the left of Ollie North.<br>
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Most Americans are so thoroughly brainwashed by right-wing propaganda
that they genuinely *believe* that anything non-conservative is
basically in the socialist/communist/Trotskyist/Maoist nexus.<br>
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Richard Loosemore<br>
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