Yoshie wrote, "But the opposite of liberalism is illiberalism not fascism. Fascism is merely one variant of illiberalism, and so is Marxism. That is why many Marxists' tacit embrace of liberalism is unconvincing, for liberalism functions there as an ill-adapted prosthetic."
Or it might is all be insufficiently post-modernistically illiberal. :-) I'm increasingly persuaded that most of the arguments on these lists come from using words that mean different things to different people rather than things. At a certain point, some words have just been so used for so many different purposes that they no longer have any elasticity. They're all stretched out and useless. Communism is one. Marxism is definitely one. Liberal is even more of one. Conservatism even more meaningless and useless than liberal. Left and Right probably are, too. Best, Mark
