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Re: Censorial leftists (Was: Interesting article)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Wed Dec 3 20:45:44 1997

Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 16:43:40 -0800
To: James Love <love@cptech.org>
From: David Honig <honig@otc.net>
Cc: Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com>, Jay Holovacs <holovacs@idt.net>,
        fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <3485D7B7.E444A846@cptech.org>
Reply-To: David Honig <honig@otc.net>

At 05:05 PM 12/3/97 -0500, James Love wrote:
>Declan, apparently having missed the fab 50's, seems to be enjoying his
>use of the "leftist" word lately.  Since this seems to mean quite
>different things to different persons, perhaps Mr. McCullagh can define
>his terms.  What exactly is a "leftist" in 1997, in his opinion?
>
>    Jamie

Yeah, the relevant political dimension is statist vs. individualist, but
you knew that.

And the difference between republocrat and demipublican is vanishingly small.




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