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A fine old German Social Democrat, August Bebel, quipped, "Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools" when confronted by efforts by several on the Left in his day to make common cause with Jew-hating grassroots reactionaries. The reason given for these attempts was that these bigots were deluded but had good hearts, and only needed to be persuaded that the true enemy was Big Capital, not the Rothschilds, The persuasion would come in the form of joint actions, during which time trust would 'seep' into the Archie Bunkers and they would eventually realize the error of their ways. Needless to say, these attempts ended up badly. Cockburn once wrote about the Left needing to go to rural fairs and engaging the Bunkers there in direct conversation about bankers, so as to divert them away from Trilateral/Rothschild conspiracies and toward Wall Street, Coors, etc. But, to paraphrase Exodus about a certain Pharaoh, "he knew not Bebel." I speak only of forging deep ties with the far Right, not the only occasional one-off action like Alan Grayson and Ron Paul cosponsoring a bill in Congress on civil liberties. An occasional peep from the paleos in Counterpunch is harmless, as long as it doesn't get into our heads these people aren't hopeless. But what we have been witness to at CP is not a peep but a plethora. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
