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To: Professor Dotcomm who wrote (309648)10/18/2002 9:54:26 AM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Saddam is a great guy. Elected by 100% of his people. Beloved by all. It's just a total mystery why Bush has taken such a dislike for the man. It must hurt poor sensitive Saddam enormously.



To: Professor Dotcomm who wrote (309648)10/18/2002 9:55:17 AM
From: D.Austin  Respond to of 769670
 
The Defeat of the Left
L-ying
E-nemy
F-orfeit
T-ruth

The only starting point for a realistic Left today is a lucid registration of historical defeat. Capital has comprehensively beaten back all threats to its rule, the bases of whose power—above all, the pressures of competition—were persistently under-estimated by the socialist movement.

That may sound partisan, but it has been confirmed by Perry Anderson, of all people, the editor of the Anglo-Marxist New Left Review (and one of Berlin's maligners). Two years ago Anderson wrote in an essay,
The only starting point for