On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:53:32 -0500 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
writes:
>[from another list...]
>
>From: LSandraH at aol.com
>Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:29:13 EST
>To: mlg-ics+ at andrew.cmu.edu
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Subject: Protest against Elia Kazan lifetime achievement award
>
>There will be a right-wing counterdemonstration
>by the
>Ayn Rand Institute, on the grounds that Elia Kazan is an anticommunist
>hero
>who saved America from becoming a soviet state with poverty and
>gulags, who
>say being a member of the communist party was like being a Nazi.
One thing about Ayn Rand (who testified before the HUAC as a "friendly" witness) and her latter day disciples is how the forcing people to testify before Congress, as well as the general blacklist could be regarded as being in anyway compatible with libertarian principles?
Jim Farmelant
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