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Entry: The Origins of the Pod People Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_origins_of_the_pod_people#9462 Post contents: I didn't say that what people call themselves is necesssarily decisive and certainly not if you are dealing with something like sex which is both either/or and genetically determined. Even so, a man who calls himself a woman and relentlessly maintains a disguise as a woman is certainly conveying important information about his state of mind. Maybe he really considers himself a woman. Where you are dealing with something like political ideology, which is determined completely by what is in a person's mind and not by genetics, how do you tell that a person who calls himself a Communist, who is associated with Communist organizations from his youth, and who becomes the recognized leader of world Communism, promoting Communism on a global basis is actually a nationalist in disguise? It seems to me, John, that this stems from your own ideological position, probably derived from Lukacs, that all politics is nationalism beneath the surface. Sent at: 2008 11 22