Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 10:30:54 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: AUT: The term "left-wing"


Peter Jovanovic:  "Floyce i had a quick skim thorugh
your 'alphabet soup' article and i didn't notice much
proof that trots are petty-bourgeois."

Petty-bourgeois movements struggle to increase the
political and social power of small capitalists.  All
of the groups are petty-bourgeois that advocate the
continuance of wage labor after a workers' revolution.
 Certainly the method of "leaders" and "followers" is
a good indicator of petty-bourgeois orientation, such
as the use of the dogmas of "Trotsky-ism" or of
"Marx-ism."

Harald Beyer-Arnesen:  "The problem with the term
["left"] lies in it being used as if it was
self-evident what it meant. . . . More times I
probably avoid using it. . . . It is the substance of
what one has to say that counts the most in all
circumstances.

Agreed.  As with any euphemism, "left" can only be
used to deceive or as a term of derision.

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