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Dogan, A little bit more concrete understanding of the US would serve you well in this since it is specifically the political situation in the US you think you are analyzing. "Liberalism" as a political "agenda," rather than a school of economic thought, is the label attached, and self-attached, to and by a section of the bourgeoisie that supports government intervention, and changes in the content of government intervention, in issues of social welfare, social justice, to mitigate the "worst" inequities in capitalism. The "conservative" section of the bourgeoisie has made a career of attacking "liberals," the "liberal media," "liberal think tanks," liberal civil libertarians, blahblahblahblah. Mark is stating that your support, and tortured rationalizations of the CPUSA's own right of center rationalizations and endorsements of the "healthcare" bill is a mark of "conservatism," a position that is actually less "progressive," and represents a greater retreat, than the positions of the liberal wing of the US bourgeoisie. So... you don't grasp the content of Hegel's analysis of master and slave, you misrepresent, IMO, Marx's and Engel's analysis of free trade, you are mistaken in your counterposing of "everyday politics" to "strategic thinking," and you misunderstand the CPUSA's position on everyday politics and strategic thinking since their everyday support of Obama is explicitly their strategic thinking. And now you add to that a basic ignorance as to the characterizations of different political agendas of the bourgeoisie. In the US, we would say "your're batting a thousand," which of course would mean, "you're batting zero. You're 0 for 5, you're below the Mendoza line, you're wearing the golden sombrero, you're a weak stick, a rally-killer, a sure out. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dogan Gocmen" <dgn.g...@googlemail.com> ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
