Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Dueling manifestos
Port Huron Statement, meet Mount Vernon Statement. …
The far left and right: They really are just mirror images of themselves, right down to their pompous manifestos. … Let’s bring back Whitaker Chambers on the subject:
Port Huron Statement, meet Mount Vernon Statement. …
The far left and right: They really are just mirror images of themselves, right down to their pompous manifestos. … Let’s bring back Whitaker Chambers on the subject:
One Big Brother is, of course, a socializing elite (as we know, several cut-rate brands are on the shelves). Miss Rand, as the enemy of any socializing force, calls in a Big Brother of her own contriving to do battle with the other. … The author (hasn’t), apparently, brooded on the degree to which, in a wicked world, a materialism of the Right and a materialism of the Left first surprisingly resemble, then, in action, tend to blend each with each, because, while differing at the top in avowed purpose, and possibly in conflict there, at bottom they are much the same thing.
