Quoting Jostein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Quoting Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > American Marxist phobia is actually more a thing of the fifties and > > sixties. It's really quite dead. However, there are little pockets of > > folks with rather extreme views who keep it alive in bits and pieces, > > here and there. That's probably true of any system of beliefs anywhere > > in the world. > > Sadly, yes. I'd even opt for leaving out the "probably". :-( > > What puzzles me in this particular case is just the anachronistic nature of > the > phobia... :-)
Quite a few Americans still seem to take the U.S. Civil War personally. (That was in the 1860s. Governments claiming to be Marxist have existed rather more recently than that.) I believe that in other parts of the world there are people beating not only dead horses but pretty ancient fossils; however, since I live here, this is the example I can cite. Sorry, this won't do anything to clear up your puzzlement, but in case you were actually surprised by it, don't be. ERNR
