There’s a good review of The Anti-American Manifesto in today’s East Hampton Star:
The extreme competence of the writing — with the exception of too many invectives — and the quality work put into the volume by the publisher indicates they both care. This message is all the more forceful in an era when the publishing industry generally does not care about the literary quality of what it publishes, only whether it will be profitable to the corporation that owns the publisher. Mr. Rall, you have influenced my thinking.
The author fears he may be arrested because of his views. If he is, I will help seek his freedom, but not with a gun or a brick, as he appears to recommend. I don’t agree with all he’s said, but he has said much that is true and important.
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Ted,
Read the book and agree completely. However I think you may have missed one important detail. A large portion of those on the Left are totally dependent on the System being there to support them. Like some large umbilical cord, they are attached to it for their survival because they have no clue how to take care of themselves without it. So they are perfectly willing to capitulate as much as they see necessary to maintain the status quo. The whole idea of a collapsed system scares the willies out of these folks, even more so than the right or the Tilliban.
I agree.
Of course, by definition such bourgeois liberals are not really leftists at all. In many ways, they are a greater obstacle to real change than the right.