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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (29253)	9/27/2006 12:04:11 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541345

The Left is rooted in an egalitarian philosophy, and the conflict between haves and haves nots is one of the more important elements that drives that philosophy.

To: Lane3 who wrote (29253)	9/27/2006 12:19:27 PM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 541345

In the absence of a guiding ideology, then "moderate and unaffiliated" strikes me as a very reasonable definition of the center, since the partisan party loyalists happily define themselves as right and left. Call it a definition by default, defined by the absence of traits different to its own adherents.

To: Lane3 who wrote (29253)	9/27/2006 1:19:52 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 541345

How would you reword it? You are allowed only one sentence. For starters, I think it's a mistake to try this kind of wordsmithing if the argument is meant as a serious one. If you are only casting stones, what the hell. As for the notions, I said a few things farther down the thread. Perhaps you've read them by now. Marx' work is a part of the mix, but so are Mills and Locke, New England transcendentalism, John Dewey's progressivism. And, I left this out. As the right has moved further right into a very definite radicalism, the electable portions of the Dem party have become, in effect, the Burkean conservatives. Not something I like but there it is.