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To: Bald Eagle who wrote (1883)	1/21/2001 10:26:04 AM
From: jbe	1 Recommendation Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 82486

I can't post this on the LWP thread... Why not? I posted something similiar (and no one took offense): Message 15214663 And as someone who was in Columbia grad school during the 1968 strike, I can attest to the validity of your picture of the "radical left" during that time. (I particularly remember some poor student's being howled down at a meeting, after he identified himself as a "liberal".) However, that "radical left" -- mostly well-to-do kids who had learned about radicalism from books -- was definitely out of touch with the Old Left, whose radicalism had grown out of experience, "real life," as it were. So it goes...

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (1883)	1/21/2001 11:32:29 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Really, since when did liberals become the spokespeople of the left. Really, back atcha. Where have you been? The lefties are all too happy monitoring their IRAs so suggest government control of the means of production. The farthest left you can get these days is a unionist. Here's an article by David Broder from today's Post on the left-of-center. Party's Fault Lines Likely to Surface Democrats Split by Gore's Loss, Centrist and Liberal Tensions By David S. Broder Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, January 21, 2001 washingtonpost.com