Michael Moore Responds

[C. Petersen]

> new art than a molding force that would create a new classless art." The
> magazine that circulated these ideas was the Partisan Review. The most
> prominent defender, Gold's major adversary, was James T. Farrell who
> applied for membership in the SWP but was told he'd be more effective
> outside the party. Farrell's answer to Gold on these questions is a
> classic. It is important to understand that Studs Lonigan is everything
> that a proletarian hero should not be. He is a bum and a reactionary. The
> final pages of the novel depict a May Day demonstration and Lonigan on his
> death bed says that the cops should beat in their heads.

Hey, that's the guy that Studs Terkel said he got his name from, on
Alternative Radio this past weekend. 
I'm out of touch with most of this area of history.