Henwood vs. Cockburn

[Charles Brown]

Yes, I corroborate what Doug says. I still see a lot of creeping-fascism in the militia groups. All the actuallly existing ,fascist armies have been populated by disillusioned , wacked out workers, so their class status doesn't necessarily exempt them. The liberation kernel of Good ole American rugged individualism dwindles and rots more and more as time passes.  I don't see any good practice from the militias, and there is lots of bad practice. Outstate Michigan is no different from Mississippi today, and we have a large militia population. I hypothesize a correlation.  Please show me something the militias have done good. Reputable anti-fascist scholars and field researchers ( Russ  Bellant, Chip Berlot, Center for Democratic Renewal) report them as rightwing, and proto-fascist.

I haven't read Cockburn lately, but the heresay about him sounds like he has taken a turn for the worst since the days of his something about "The Devil " syndicated column. He sounds like an LM postmod Tory. 

CB


>>> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> 11/11/99 02:52PM >>>
Max Sawicky wrote:


>I have to say I strongly support this remark
>by AC, though not so much its focus on
>Henwood:
>
>"Apropos my supposed enthusiasm for the right, I think, Doug, your
>problem is that you rarely advance into the American hinterland west of the
>Hudson, and regard it as a place of terror infested with fundamentalists,
>militia men and other demons of the polite liberal metropolitan imagination
>inflamed by hysterical fundraising letters from Morris Dees. . . . "

This is horseshit. I think Morris Dees is a faker. I like the stuff 
that Ken Silverstein did in Counterpunch (for which Cockburn 
inevitably got credit) exposing him as a poseur. I got accused of 
being soft on racism for writing in LBO and on several e-lists that 
"the militias" were not the gang of crypto-fasicsts that a lot of 
leftists were denouncing them as. Ask Charles Brown about this.

Doug