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Left Quotes by Christopher Lasch
- The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
- We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which has left him…
- Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.
- The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
- Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
- The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
- The left has lost the common touch.
- The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
- The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
- Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
- Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
- The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
- The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
- The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the…
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