[Peace-discuss] Mort regarding Obama

[Bob Illyes]

It's Marxist analysis, filtered through Chomsky, Mort. I'll give Carl the 
benefit of the doubt, and assume that he doesn't know this. The relevant 
Marxist analysis is simple- liberals say the right things but do not do 
them, and therefore delay the Revolution perhaps indefinitely by confusing 
the people.

The Revolution is utopian fiction, of course, and is just as disconnected 
from reality as is Friedman's claim of a necessary ink between the free 
market and democracy. The truth is somewhat less savory- there is no simple 
and permanent solution to the evils visited on us by unrestrained greed. We 
will be in damage control mode indefinitely, I fear.

My issue with the extremes of the left and right, as represented by Marx 
and Friedman, is that they believe that their ideas are so important that 
they transcend the value of the individual person, i.e., that the ends 
justify the means. I don't really think that such approaches can work, and 
that we are stuck with liberalism, inadequate though it may be.

Bob