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2004-08-02 Iraq-Jordan

Bad News for the Left: Iraq Heading Towards a Democracy

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Posted by badanov 2004-08-02 7:44:36 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 the genuine left, the left of christopher hitchens and Paul Berman, will celebrate the advent of democracy, and push for more of it, and will support the leftist, secular parties in Iraq, including the Iraqi Communist Party, Kurdish Socialist parties, etc. They will advocate the taxation of the stock market, etc to support social services, and a go slow approach to privatization.

The parochial, isolationist, pacifist left will simply focus on whats going wrong, since their agenda is rather different.

For a good introduction to these differences in leftism, with material going back to the split in the French left in the 1930's, see Paul Bermans "Liberalism and Terror".

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-08-02 9:25:44 AM|| 2004-08-02 9:25:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Interesting info, LH. I'm no supporter of the left, but it may make for an interesting read.

I think we should discourage Leftism in Iraq until such time they may become a big time economic powerhouse. *Then* we push the Left agenda to rein them back in again.

Posted by eLarson 2004-08-02 11:13:24 AM|| 2004-08-02 11:13:24 AM|| Front Page Top

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