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Wed Nov-07-07 04:54 PM
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1. So Elliot Abrams was a socialist before he went Neocon?

I have yet to find a satisfactory reason for why so many former leftists, some even outright socialists, with fine intellectual pedigrees went 'bad'. How do you go from being a friend of the working class, for the Revolution and global solidarity to the EXACT opposite - neo-imperialist, neo-fascist and neo-conservative? Was it mere personal opportunism? Or did the odds of taking on Capital look so daunting that they gave in and switched sides to 'be with the winners?'

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