The Real Agenda of the New Student Left

Front Page Magazine ^ | 4/12/02 | Ronald Radosh

[backhoe]

I certainly agree they are potentially very dangerous, because they peddle what I call poisonous ideas-- once you swallow them, they make you so sick ( mentally ) you can't reason your way out of the semantic trap they set for you.

I do think 911 has shone a revealing light on the bankruptcy of many of their ideas, however.

[SJackson]

After 9-11...communism/terrorism/liberalism isn't chic anymore.

Communism, OK. Terrorism of course not, but that not the same as freedom fighting. I'd like to think you're right about liberalism, but it finds back doors. In these demonstrations, they're simply supporting the "newly opressed". And in Muslim students, I think they've found a new constituency (SP?) that will swell their ranks.

[SJackson]

Some of the old-timers over there are lamenting the large influx of new members, many of whom have Arabic screen names and draft posts that indicate English is not their native language. I predict that at least part of the pro-Israel Left will end up looking for a new home, and we should be prepared to welcome them with courtesy and respect. This is a great opporunity to break up the Left's cobbled-together coalition.

You're right, though you must recognize they are adding to their coalition at the same time.

Ever go to www.arabia.com? Click English in the upper left (unless you have an arabic translator) and visit the forums.

[rmlew]

It is a great book. Unfortunately, it is far too short.
Commies goes through the American left, but is still somewhat parochial is it is basically confined to groups Radosh has dealt with. Teh book also has a section explaining Radosh's break with the left. Essentially is is Ronald Radosh's Radical Son

[darth]

I still cannot believe that anti-Americanism and anti-capitalism are enough to get the Lefties in bed with islamonazis. There's gotta be a payoff somewhere. Anybody got an idea about how to trace the money pipeline?

[f.Christian]

Ask vince foster---John Huang/ron brown too!

[mrustow]

So, massacres of civilians eating in pizzerias or celebrating religious holidays, are justified by "the Palestinian legitimate right to resist." In ISM's parallel universe, a person can support suicide bombers, while calling himself a "pacifist," a "peace activist," a "humanitarian worker." And note that ISM's language and that used by Arafat on March 31 — in calling for foreign intervention against "Israeli aggression" — were virtually identical.

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[rmlew]

This is a potential wedge issue for us, if played right. The Jewish equivalent of the anti-Castro Cuban Republicans could emerge from this.

I'm not sure the wedge would be effective. There are only 6 million Jews in the US so we are not talking large numbers. Jews are concentrated in NY, CA, and FL so their is some electoral benefit. The real benefit would be to dry up monetary support for the Democrats. Jews disproportionately contribute and volunteer for capmaigns.
Unfortunately, leftism is ingrained in American Jewish life, to the point that many leaders of the Anti-Zionists are Jewish. Let me close this by noting that I am a right-wing Jew. (Although not observant, as I am not at services right now).

[mrustow]

See #27.

[Dan from Michigan]

Counterprotest in Lansing

[JimSEA]

It is instructive to note how many of the anti-American Left of the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s are now living in their worker's paradises of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Libya, or Cuba. One might expect a like number of today's group to take up shop in Syria, Iran or Iraq. Leftistm is bankrupt.

[stands2reason]

I guess they'll take fascism over capitalism. Dumbasses.

[3catsanadog]

It is truly a coalition of the leftover Left- a group seeking anxiously to create a new umbrella cause that they hope can be for their generation what Vietnam was for that of their parents.

Monkey see, monkey do.

[Southack]

"It is instructive to note how many of the anti-American Left of the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s are now living in their worker's paradises of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Libya, or Cuba. One might expect a like number of today's group to take up shop in Syria, Iran or Iraq. Leftistm is bankrupt."

That gets my vote for Quote of the Day!

[SJackson]

He's an insignificant traitor to his nation and his religion. Not worth the bandwidth.

[RJayneJ]

Keep those cards and letters coming in!

[concerned about politics]

The instructors, hippies left over from the '60's, are teaching them this. It helps them relive their youth. They don't want to live in the present. In the past, they were considered amoung their peers as "groovy dudes, man." The professors want that back, at the expence of the students, of course. The students are great brain dead political tools for their future shock games.
Pathetic group, I'd say.

[Alamo-Girl]

bump!

[Valin]

There's a line from an old song by Steven Stills(I believe) "It's the same old lies, in a brand new bottle."

[LarryLied]

The Jewish equivalent of the anti-Castro Cuban Republicans could emerge from this.

I doubt it. Cubans who fled supported freedom. Israel is a socialist state and Jews have always voted far left in America. Tonight I watched Clinton on C-Span giving a speech to the National Jewish Democrat Council. Nothing has changed. From school choice to prayer in schools to abortion, there is a host of issues the majority of Jews will never accept.