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- From: grendel@camelot.bradley.edu (Alyosha Bourgea)
- Subject: Re: Here Are The Undeniable Truths of Life
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 17:30:14 GMT
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- In <Bxxxno.52t@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> aaiken@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Andrew C. Aiken) writes:
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- >In <grendel.722136033@camelot> grendel@camelot.bradley.edu (Alyosha Bourgea)
- >answers his telephone:
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- >>HELLO! Remember the coup? Remember Gorbachev getting kidnapped? Remember
- >>the breakup of the Soviet Union? It happened because a RIGHT-wing faction
- >>of the government, that is, the old guard of Brezhnev/Lenin ideology,
- >>opposed Gorbachev's progressivism and willingness to allow state's rights.
- >>Calling Soviet government fascist left-wingers is way too convenient.
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- > This only goes to show that terms such as "left" and "right" are
- >relative. Still, to exploit this fact is being disingenuous. In the
- >American political tradition, Breshnev and Lenin could hardly be considered
- >conservative. And is it not the conservative who advocates federalism, that
- >doctrine upon which our country was founded, also called "states rights"?
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- You're right, "left" and "right" are relative. I interpret "right" as being
- conservative, which to me means a desire to maintain the status quo, uphold
- tradition, etc., as opposed to "left"/liberal which to me means a desire to
- change, experiment, reorganize, etc.
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