Class Memory...was Michael Moore

Dhlazare at aol.com Dhlazare at aol.com
Fri May 29 03:17:53 PDT 1998


In a message dated 98-05-28 22:10:07 EDT, you write:

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On Thu, 28 May 1998, Katha Pollitt wrote:

> worse, was doing actual politics. But Gitlin and Alterman are just

> pontificators. They don't belong to any social movement, or even know

> much about them. What they are basically all about is book contracts,

> and panels, and grants. Which is hardly a crime --- I'm a writer too--

> but they shouldn't speak as if they represent a wing of an actually

> existing "left." I've yet to meet a leftist, of any stripe, who takes

> them seriously.

Didn't Gitlin use to do politics with the SDS?

--jks >>

Yes, but bear in mind that SDS had descended into bitter factionalization and paralysis by 1965-67, after which it fairly disintegrated. I hate to be the one to point it out, but that was more than 30 yrs ago.

Dan Lazare



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