You send me private mail basically warning me that Ward Churchill is some kind of agent-provocateur. This is your idea of what the revolutionary movement needs more of? You disgusting piece of ------. I wrote a political explanation of what took place in Nicaragua and your response to my rather measured and dispassionate analysis was that I was "unprincipled" and that my "Trotskyist roots" were showing. I have no idea what kind of ambiguity you are advocating. Myself, I prefer directness. And I will tell you directly that you are a no-good troublemaker.
>Despite that unifying factor, a lack of scruple rules out regarding
someone as
>comrade, except in the most general sense, regardless of agreement on points
>of doctrine. Trustworthiness, not adequacy of political line, is the single
>most precious socialist virtue, as anyone on the front line of struggle will
>tell you.
I consider Ward Churchill a political ally in my struggle to synthesize Marxism and indigenism. The FSLN has basically analyzed its policy on the Atlantic Coast as a dogmatic mistake. All the issues you raise about Ward's "sincerity" can not be countered because they go beyond his words and his actions. All I can say about you is that you are the sort of person who likes to put the snitch-jacket on people. Usually the snitch-jacket is used to smear people with alleged FBI connections, but in your case you go for the big-time, the CIA. You haven't hear the last of this.
Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)