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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