Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:54:45 -0600 From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
This is the first of two. Since Lou's comment on one brief part of my post has appeared on LBO I thought the whole post plus a follow-up might as well be posted here as well.
Carrol
Louis Proyect wrote:
> >.....
I'm not going to fight with you. And I'm not going to fight with Doug. Even if one or the other or both of you fight with me.
I have been a gread admirer of Cockburn -- and what attracted me to him when I first read his columns in the *Nation* was that he (along with Kopkind) was particularly free of racism. He still is when he confronts it directly. But if he keeps up with this alliance of left and right stuff he is going to have to get in bed with racism. He is clearly already far more eurocentric than any other important writer on the left.
Part of my becoming marxist 33 years or so ago was the growing recognition that the fight against racism had to be the cutting edge of u.s. politics. I can't maintain that position and not complain about the kind of horseshit I quoted from Cockburn.
Carrol