cryptoanarchy.wiki

Arise, you have nothing to lose but your barbed wire fences!

1997-12-03 - Re: Censorial leftists (Was: Interesting article)

Header Data

From: Declan McCullagh <declan@vorlon.mit.edu>
To: James Love <love@cptech.org>
Message Hash: c7a8f853a68b1d3480e868afcb1c14b9a99eb7c4737ef310390b2d7b52ee4ea7
Message ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.971203181646.154B-100000@vorlon.mit.edu>
Reply To: <3485D7B7.E444A846@cptech.org>
UTC Datetime: 1997-12-03 23:30:08 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 07:30:08 +0800

Raw message

From: Declan McCullagh <declan@vorlon.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 07:30:08 +0800
To: James Love <love@cptech.org>
Subject: Re: Censorial leftists (Was: Interesting article)
In-Reply-To: <3485D7B7.E444A846@cptech.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.971203181646.154B-100000@vorlon.mit.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain




On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, James Love wrote:

> Declan, apparently having missed the fab 50's, seems to be enjoying his
> use of the "leftist" word lately.  Since this seems to mean quite
> different things to different persons, perhaps Mr. McCullagh can define
> his terms.  What exactly is a "leftist" in 1997, in his opinion?

Jamie, I may have missed the fab 50s but I suspect you spent a little too
much time in the psychadelic 60s. In 1997, a leftist can best be defined
as a big government fetishist. :)

Tell your boss Ralph Nader hi for me...

-Declan

Thread