Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Yes, anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism [View all]LeftishBrit
(41,318 posts)That is, I don't agree that DU-ers frequently link to antiwar.com, or that it's a favourite for leftists in general, but I do agree that it's a far right site.
I have bothered to read it quite recently! As regards the basis for my conclusions, I have set much of it out in the post to which Shira was replying. And here is part of their own description of their principles:
'Our politics are libertarian: our opposition to war is rooted in Randolph Bourne's concept that "War is the health of the State." With every war, America has made a "great leap" into statism, and as Bourne emphasized, "it is during war that one best understands the nature of that institution [the State]." At its core, that nature includes an ever increasing threat to individual liberty and the centralization of political power. ..
In 1952, Garet Garrett, one of the last of the Old Right "isolationists," said it well:
"Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity. Either one must forbid the other or one will destroy the other."
This is the perception that informs our activism and inspires our dedication. Non-interventionism abroad is a corollary to non-interventionism at home. Randolph Bourne echoed this sentiment: "We cannot crusade against war without implicitly crusading against the State." ...Our dedication to libertarian principles, inspired in large part by the works and example of the late Murray N. Rothbard, is reflected on this site. ..The founders of Antiwar.com were active in the Libertarian Party during the 1970s; in 1983, we founded the Libertarian Republican Organizing Committee to work as a libertarian caucus within the GOP. Today, we are seeking to challenge the traditional politics of "Left" and "Right." ..The totalitarian liberals and social democrats of the West have unilaterally and arrogantly abolished national sovereignty ..'
Their great hero Murray Rothbard was one of the big proponents of the evil 'Austrian School of Economics' (whose policies are perhaps best summarized by the phrase 'Let them eat cake!')