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You should read Postwar. If you haven't already. Legolas Send a noteboard - 01/09/2011 06:18:55 PM
This - or rather, the far worse version of the same phenomenon in which rather a lot of European intellectuals supported Lenin, Stalin or Mao beyond all reason - is dealt with at length in that book.

Of course, as irrational as supporting Mao back in the seventies or eighties was, it still makes more sense than supporting Qaddafi, who isn't following communism or any other fleshed-out ideology, but just does whatever the hell he feels like. For that one the only explanation is the anti-war ideas being taken a few bridges too far.
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Why does the Left support dictators? Tom - 01/09/2011 02:37:25 AM 1288 Views
They don't. Dannymac - 01/09/2011 02:45:52 AM 850 Views
Do you have anyone besides those two? Roland00 - 01/09/2011 02:52:19 AM 822 Views
Well, he also mentioned Michael Moore Isaac - 01/09/2011 04:34:03 AM 696 Views
I ususally do not respond to threads like this, for many threads like this are done by unreasonable Roland00 - 01/09/2011 12:21:10 PM 601 Views
kucinich is moderate-left not far left moondog - 01/09/2011 04:42:49 AM 628 Views
I'm not trying to say they are mainstream left. Tom - 01/09/2011 02:39:18 PM 781 Views
I would agree currently that is true (if you are talking fringe left vs fringe right) Roland00 - 01/09/2011 03:59:45 PM 630 Views
As I mentioned in my reply to Legolas, 40 or 50 years ago it was mutual hypocrisy. Tom - 01/09/2011 08:01:23 PM 596 Views
don't confuse the far left with the vast majority of americans who support people like kucinich moondog - 01/09/2011 04:53:14 AM 831 Views
"the vast majority of americans who support people like kucinich" LOL thats funny *NM* random thoughts - 01/09/2011 01:19:12 PM 294 Views
Yeah, I don't think most people support that deranged hobbit Tom - 01/09/2011 02:43:55 PM 669 Views
Tom, leave the absurdist and patently false dichotomies to trzaska. *NM* Stephen - 01/09/2011 11:43:35 AM 379 Views
Or at least add a smiley to your subject *NM* beetnemesis - 01/09/2011 12:57:45 PM 380 Views
Why does the Left support dictators? *NM* beetnemesis - 01/09/2011 12:59:19 PM 404 Views
There's nothing absurdist about it. Tom - 01/09/2011 02:40:32 PM 768 Views
That's just it... it ISN'T that obvious. Dannymac - 01/09/2011 06:46:41 PM 727 Views
Because there aren't any good right wing oppressive regimes for the Right to get behind these days? snoopcester - 01/09/2011 12:53:32 PM 637 Views
Iran Great Lord of Chaos - 01/09/2011 04:06:04 PM 797 Views
Wrong religion *NM* snoopcester - 01/09/2011 07:09:24 PM 374 Views
I am going to get flamed for this...but how about Israel Roland00 - 01/09/2011 10:03:59 PM 733 Views
You should read Postwar. If you haven't already. Legolas - 01/09/2011 06:18:55 PM 849 Views
No, there is at least one more explanation snoopcester - 01/09/2011 07:05:11 PM 832 Views
Yes, anti-Americanism is a very significant part of the equation. *NM* Tom - 01/09/2011 08:02:05 PM 382 Views
Outside America, yes, definitely. He seemed to be talking about inside the US though. Legolas - 01/09/2011 08:26:27 PM 820 Views
True snoopcester - 01/09/2011 08:45:05 PM 751 Views
well anti-Americanism runs about as strong in the American left as it does in European left *NM* random thoughts - 01/09/2011 08:51:34 PM 421 Views
I was using US examples but not trying to limit myself to the US. Tom - 01/09/2011 09:57:57 PM 746 Views
I wanted to keep things confined to the present day. Tom - 01/09/2011 07:58:15 PM 621 Views
Hmm snoopcester - 01/09/2011 08:49:54 PM 662 Views
I disagree on the last point, and here's why: Tom - 01/09/2011 09:54:52 PM 787 Views
Interesting. I hadn't thought of it that way. *NM* Legolas - 01/09/2011 10:08:46 PM 373 Views
I think that does hold up to a point snoopcester - 02/09/2011 02:10:48 PM 709 Views
when you combine that with America's pro-British stance it explains why the Brits seem conflicted *NM* random thoughts - 01/09/2011 07:51:41 PM 417 Views
America has a pro-British stance? I'm thinking that'd be news to most Brits. *NM* Legolas - 01/09/2011 08:27:33 PM 429 Views
Well like most things the Brits think they know about the US they would be wrong random thoughts - 01/09/2011 08:48:47 PM 835 Views
Of course, they are all the non-Jedi bad guys in Star Wars. Dannymac - 01/09/2011 09:10:46 PM 678 Views
Or they just see things differently. Legolas - 01/09/2011 10:15:20 PM 708 Views
But the Brits do need us, and we don't need them. Tom - 02/09/2011 06:01:10 PM 678 Views
Of course it's obvious. That doesn't mean they have to like it, or can't resent it. *NM* Legolas - 02/09/2011 06:14:37 PM 395 Views
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. aerocontrols - 02/09/2011 01:25:40 AM 823 Views
how does that work for people like Chavez and Castro? random thoughts - 02/09/2011 01:30:02 PM 767 Views
Yes, that's how it works aerocontrols - 02/09/2011 10:29:38 PM 722 Views
I think your historical argument is flawed Tom - 02/09/2011 05:57:00 PM 877 Views
Possibly aerocontrols - 02/09/2011 10:37:19 PM 806 Views
I think that something has fundamentally changed now. Tom - 02/09/2011 11:21:02 PM 665 Views
I don't find your argument very convincing. Vodalus - 06/09/2011 05:20:12 AM 946 Views
... I don't. Camilla - 06/09/2011 08:44:27 AM 748 Views
Apologies, I was sure I responded to this when you first posted the thread. Joel - 07/10/2011 05:55:27 AM 813 Views
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