Thanks, Marcy. Words are indeed very important. In my original letter,
I suggested that the reason so many leftists now want to call
themselves "progressive" is because the track record of people who
share their ideology has given the words "communist," "socialist,"
"leftist," and "liberal" a bad name, and that we should let them reap
what they have sown. Similarly many conservatives shun the term "right
wing" and want to redefine themselves as "compassionate conservatives."
Yours in liberty,
<<< Starchild >>>
Congratulations and thank you to Starchild and Dave Barker from me
also for
their published pieces.Regarding Starchild's letter in the Examiner, I very much agree with
his
picking a fight with the word "progressive." We used to call "big
government" people "leftists" (some more kindly called them
"liberals," and
others less kindly called them "pinkos"). The leftists decided to
find a
more appealing name for themselves and settled on "progressive." They
have
now appropriated a word that conjures "progress," "moving forward." I
cannot think of a group less willing to embrace any change than the big
government people. I can see the leftists wanting to call themselves
"progressive", but I am suggesting that Libertarians follow
Starchild's lead
and refuse to accept it. I was surprised at the last LPSF meeting to
hear
us using the word "progressive" to describe leftists!Marcy
From: Starchild <sfdreamer@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: lpsf-discuss@yahoogroups.com
To: lpsf-discuss@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [lpsf-discuss] Press
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:12:34 -0700Thanks Chris... too bad they cut out my best lines though, despite the
short length of what I sent them. Hopefully they'll publish another
letter taking me to task and then I'll get a chance at a rebuttal.Yours in liberty,
<<< Starchild >>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1Congratulations to Starchild for getting his letter about Mike Denny
into
today's _Examiner_ (<URL:
http://www.sfexaminer.com/templates/
story.cfm?displaystory=1&storyname=091503op_letters).
And also to Dave Barker for his long and insightful piece on public
schools
in this month's _California Freedom_, and to Richard Winger for his
strategy piece (already forwarded) in both _California Freedom_ and
_LP News_.~Chris
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Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as
distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with
others.
~Ambrose Bierce / Freelance text nerd: <URL: http://crism.maden.org/
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