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Because the liberal sales wing of the ruling class have the most influence among the segment of the population most likely to advocate change disruptive to the
by mcantelon 13y ago
Because the liberal sales wing of the ruling class have the most influence among the segment of the population most likely to advocate change disruptive to the status quo. Pacifism is promoted as the only legitimate strategy in order to promote a political mindset that sees militance as taboo.
- dinkumthinkum 13y agoYou're just talking partisan jibber jabber. Some people think peace is a useful route as violence tends to be a cycle that is hard to stop. Will peaceful action always work? No, the world is complicated. The fact that you say "the liberal sales wing of the ruling class" just makes you seem ridiculous.
- mbillie1 13y ago> The fact that you say "the liberal sales wing of the ruling class" just makes you seem ridiculous. "ridiculous" is generous here.
- mcantelon 13y agoI'm not trying to be partisan, simply implying that both sides are shilling for the same core interests (with social policy as the differentiator).
- dinkumthinkum 13y agoWhat?
- mcantelon 13y agoI'll try to clarify my thinking here... An earlier poster asked "Could you explain why you think that 'liberals' are trying to sanitise history more than anyone else?" The ideas that keep the left and right from posing a political problem to the established order are, respectively, pacifism and patriotism. Pacifism limits conflict to electoral and symbolic efforts. Patriotism does the same by loyalty rather than dissidence. To reenforce the idea of pacifism, for the benefit of the left wing, the mainstream media canonizes pacifist heroes, such as Mandala and Ghandi, downplaying the roles of militants in their self-determination movements.