Horowitz's center

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Mar 3 09:35:02 PST 1999


Paul Henry Rosenberg wrote:


>It's a neo-McCarthyiste organization Horowitz established, funded by the
>usual suspects. His signature efforts all much like this one --
>attempts to shut people up.
>
>The one that really put him on the map was his attack on Globalvision's
>"South Africa Now", which he attacked as -- you guessed it! -- Marxist
>propoaganda. The Marxists in question being the ANC.

I have a problem with this sort of liberal anti-McCarthyism: it's an insult to the better side of communist history. The ANC wasn't Marxist, but the South African Communist Party was an important part of the anti-apartheid struggle (though it's compromised itself, just like the ANC has, in the post-apartheid era), and Soviet aid helped keep the ANC going during apartheid's strongest days. And there were indeed real Communists in the US during the McCarthy era, organizing workers and tenants and other good things (when they weren't defending Stalin and the Democratic Party). McCarthy was, and Horowitz is, the devil's representative on earth, but let's not accept their use of "Communist" as a slur in the process.

Doug



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