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To: KLP who wrote (99840)	6/2/2003 10:56:03 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

John, who do you include in the "radical right wing"...I am really curious, as I know you are a 'friend' of Chomsky. Karen, it's not wise to make those assumptions. Bill does and badly. I haven't read Chomsky seriously for many, many years. I read his linguistics stuff long enough to see that he was a genuis at that but some basic assumptions in his work didn't work for me. As for his political stuff, when I've read it I find it too conspiratorial for my tastes. But, again, I don't know, at least in any serious sense, what he's written politically for many years. So I'm neither friend or foe when it comes to Chomsky. As for who I include in the "radical right wing", I had expected to get some comments by my repeated use of the term since I conflate two things in it that's not a good idea. But I can't find any other way to type. I consider poltiical labels like right and left as offering two rather large uses: a placeholder for a broad set of views that have to be argued for when labeling any given person and as a motive structure which ditto. I tend to use "radical right wing" as both. At least until I can find a better set of words. Who do I include? Well, like every category, it gets a bit mushy at the borders. And it does encompass some different motives. Shared views, however, are their social/moral views coupled with the use of a strong federal government to enforce them. It's the linkage of this group that wishes to have a stronger federal government with the "cut the taxes" crowd that wishes to have a smaller federal government, that's the intriguing political thing. Generally, the latter crowd don't share the moral views of the former. So, there are certainly tensions.