This extraordinary notion that only left-wing politics is "political".
I suppose it acts as a counter to the supposition that the views of
leftist intellectuals just are the views that any right-thinking
person not corrupted by racist, etc., ideology would be compelled by
force of reason and their own innate moral decency to hold. But it
counters it with the equivalent supposition about right-wing
"values"...
Dominic
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 05:00:02 -0700, Frank Parker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I read through the article and what got my attention was the mass of
> footnotes at the end. Suddenly I was transported to the 1960's when
> diatribes published by the ultra-rightwing John Birch Society had pages of
> footnotes that sometimes outnumbered the pages of the article they
> supported. Somehow the sheer volume of footnotes were supposed to legitimize
> the argument of the article. Nonsense, of course.
>
> "But his work has become the focus of like-minded leftist
> writers...who also use their poetry as politics, rather than art."
>
> Right. We're supposed to remember art has nothing to do with politics, that
> the two are mutually exclusive. I mean, the author of the article knows
> that, why don't we?
>
> I don't like being pushed from the right or the left. Anyone yelling,
> "You're a poet so you should..." can fuck off in my book.
>
> Frank
>
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