On 11/4/06, Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Nov 4, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Male leftists in the West, various as they are, have more in common
> with one another than, say, "SUV drivers" in marketing research or
> "Americans" in Richard Hofstandter's work, to take two categories you
> are fond of using. If it is possible to speak of a predominant
> tendency in the latter, surely it's possible to speak of one in the
> former.
The market research comes from surveys and focus groups commissioned
by auto companies who have an economic incentive to get it right.
I suppose Western male leftists are too small a niche market to
deserve company-commissioned research. :->
Seriously, leftist support for Western interventions was overwhelming
in the case of Yugoslavia, and only a small band of pacifists and
anti-imperialists protested it. One might think that Milosevic's
Yugoslavia had far more going for it than Saddam Hussein's Iraq, but
more spoke up against the sanctions and war against the latter than
the former, probably because conquering the latter presented more of a
challenge than doing the former in. In the end, that -- how difficult
is it? -- seems to be the only thing that matters, after the breakdown
of anti-imperialist consensus.
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Yoshie
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