[Peace-discuss] A new left/right antiwar movement?

Morton K. Brussel brussel at illinois.edu
Tue Mar 22 17:58:40 CDT 2011


"libertarian socialist"? Chomsky is far from defining that oxymoron.  Think about Ron Paul as the quintessential libertarian. Amazing!
--mkb
On Mar 22, 2011, at 4:22 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:

> On 3/22/11 12:58 PM, "E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森" wrote:
>> ...Why not a paleoconservative/classical liberal/libertarian/progressive Coalition Against the War? If such a diverse motley crew as Ron Paul, Walter Jones, Barney Frank, Ralph Nader, Cynthia McKinney, Dennis Kucinich, Chuck Baldwin, Tim Johnson, et al can put aside deep ideologic disaggregative forces and stand together against the War Machine, why cant more of us find it in our hearts to do the same?  Why not?
> I agree entirely, but while we're about it I'd want to put my own cards on the table. I heard the following from Chomsky long ago, and I've not seen any reason in 40 years to disagree with it:
> 
> ""I think that the libertarian socialist concepts - and by that I mean a range of thinking
> that extends from left-wing Marxism through anarchism - are fundamentally correct
> and that they are the proper and natural extension of classical liberalism
> into the era of advanced industrial society."
> 
> --CGE
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