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The re-emergence of a rational, libertarian left. (Editorial).(Editorial)

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| November 01, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

PERHAPS THE MOST interesting aspect of the response to the atrocities of 11th September is the emergence, or rather re-emergence, of a rational Left. For years, essentially since the upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s, the Left has been dominated by those stuck in the romantic fantasies of their youth, and their spiritual children have for the most part dutifully and thoughtlessly conformed. This kind of leftism has had little in common with the traditions of the socialist or even Marxist, movements nor of the idealism which underlay them, but rather has been a strange mix of anti-Americanism and admiration for dictatorial regimes professing to be of the Left. Tinpot ...


    
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