tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post8747820810581891204..comments2024-03-28T23:49:28.343+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: The Not-So-Special RelationshipDavid Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-85986257420226426362013-01-09T15:25:46.606+00:002013-01-09T15:25:46.606+00:00Plenty of, for various reasons, unprintable stuff....Plenty of, for various reasons, unprintable stuff. And mountains of correspondence.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-57267175179505148642013-01-09T08:13:27.988+00:002013-01-09T08:13:27.988+00:00Thanks for the reply, Mr Lindsay. It must be frust...Thanks for the reply, Mr Lindsay. It must be frustrating to not get much comments to your blog.<br /><br />IdrianIdrianhttp://blogubat.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-47339628857455260132013-01-07T07:33:29.914+00:002013-01-07T07:33:29.914+00:00A robust, but not jingoistic, patriotism in the fa...A robust, but not jingoistic, patriotism in the face of all challenges, whether from the European Union or from the United States, whether from Israel or from the Gulf monarchs, whether from China or from the Russian oligarchs, whether from money markets or from media moguls, whether from separatists or from communalists, whether from anything or anyone whatever.<br /><br />That patriotism absolutely excludes any new Cold War against Russia, China, Iran, or anywhere else. We resist any idea of the American Republic’s coercively imposing utopianism, since we reject that idea’s rewritten Marxism in which the bourgeoisie is the victorious class, because we reject all class-based politics in favour of “a platform broad enough for all to stand upon”.<br /><br />This arises out of a living tradition which includes a valiant history of opposition to all of Stalinism, Maoism, the Trotskyist distinction without a difference, Nazism, Fascism, and the Far Right regimes in Southern Africa, Latin America and elsewhere.<br /><br />There can be no room for those who have never recanted their former Stalinism, Maoism or Trotskyism, or their former support for those Far Right regimes, admitting that that stance had been wrong at the time. Today, this heritage defines the correct approach both to Islamism and to neoconservatism.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-34468522210839375682013-01-07T05:45:48.050+00:002013-01-07T05:45:48.050+00:00Hello Mr Lindsay:
First time to comment here. If ...Hello Mr Lindsay:<br /><br />First time to comment here. If the "special relationship" is not to Britain's advantage, what kind of relationsip should it pursue if it's ever to be relevant in world affairs - <b>if</b> it chooses to be relevant in world affairs?<br /><br />IdrianIdrianhttp://blogubat.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com