> >Justin Schwartz wrote: > >>What part do you reject, Doug? Representative govt? Univeral >>suffrage? Extensive civil and political liberties? In fact you >>reject none of it. You are a bourg lib too, as are probably 95% of >>the people on this list. > >I reject none of it except your label.
See, Scott? It's too good for the >bourgeoisie, which, I'm old-fashioned enough to think, is a ruling >class that tries to get away with being as undemocratic as possible. Agreed. But I don't refer to them, but rather to the kind of society that created bourg lib. > >And what about that word "liberal"? It carries with it the now >largely forgotten modifier "Manchester," no? An atomized competitive >system with no real room for notions of social solidarity. > Yeah, forgotten, the way that "specious" meant "plausible" in them days. jks _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
