Rebecca
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Pornographication of politics
In your editorial in the November 14 Militant you wrote, “The problem with the capitalists, their political representatives, and their mouthpieces… is not that they are immoral, hypocritical people as individuals. The scandal mongering is fueled largely by the far right and the left within bourgeois politics to profit from middle-class insecurities and drag workers along with the declining bourgeoisie itself down into the pit of resentment and salacious envy.” That’s quite a mouthful. I would love to see it expanded into an article. Meanwhile, references to past articles would be helpful.

David Segal
New York, New York

Thanks. We’ll try to find a way to return to the subject. In the meantime, you could look up the relevant section, under the subheading “Pornographication of politics,”of “Imperialism’s March Toward Fascism and War” by Jack Barnes in New International no. 10 (p. 289). You may also find useful the article in the Sept. 28, 1998, Militant, on Clinton’s impeachment.

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