[Marxism] Hate crimes legislation & David Thorstad

[Ruthless Critic of All that Exists]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Jeff <meisner at xs4all.nl> wrote:


> Well I think I have done that. Now I'd like to hear how David Thorstad (or
> anyone else) expects to oppose hate-crimes legislation or the right to gay
> marriage, without winding up in league with the right-wing!

This "winding up in league with the right-wing" is a red-herring.
There are lot of areas in which Marxist positions can be similar to
right-wing positions, but for completely different reasons. For
example, both Marxists and the hard right oppose liberalism (but for
different reasons obviously).

A good Marxist case can be made for opposing purely race-based
affirmative action, to take another example -- but right-wingers also
oppose it.

Etc.