CIA Comsymps

pms laflame at mindspring.com
Mon Nov 23 23:01:38 PST 1998



>I do not recall SDS'ers or Black
>Panthers maintaining such a liaison during the 1960's. Klehr tries to
>explain away Donovan's cooperation with the CP as wartime "expediency."
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>Isn't it possible that, seeing facism as capitalism on steroids, so to
speak, the communists could have been recruited by implying that others would see the results of unfettered capitalism after the war, and that perhaps the left would be embraced as patriotic prophets of the evils of profit.

And I'm curious, what concrete steps, like nationalize the banks, or whatever, would folks on this list suggest, say Charlie Rose is asking what the leader of the new Peoples Party, which controls both houses, say the President is a moderate Democrat, wishes to do, to transform the economy?`

And in Salon, David Horowitz says the Chilean people overthrew Allende. And Pinochet was much better for Chile than Castro was for Cuba. I bet most American think that too, if they've ever thought about, which is highly unlikely, but they'll still have a strong opinion.

As we prepare for our Thanksgiving dinners, the Right is doing a pre-emptive strike, so any left-ward proposal is garbled before it's been spoken. And they don't have to make any sense which makes their job a lot easier. Bank manager to bus boy, High school diploma to MBA, people either think Clintons a liberal or a leftist, that National Healthcare is socialism, and that socialism means everybody got to wear the same clothes.

So we better have some language ready. Rambling...

Well, off to bed.

pms



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