Reply #76: It Depends

[DemocratSinceBirth]

but there has always been alot of tension between liberals and far leftists or radicals.

By radical I don't mean it to be pejorative. Radical comes from the word root and radicals want to make root change. Most liberals don't

Some folks don't know the difference between a classical liberal, a traditional liberal. and a radical and use these words incorrectly.

I don't mean to turn this thread into a seminar but that little discourse leads to my larger point.

Radicals want to destroy liberalism by maximizing the contradictions in our system.

I remember reading about how one of my heroes, Michael Harrington, a Democratic Socialist tried to get members of the New Left to support McGovern but even McGovern wasn't sufficiently left for them. They preferred to see a Nixon reelection because they believed things would get so bad the people would turn to them.

Radicalism and liberalism are different and radicalism is the enemy of liberalism.