On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 21:51:03 -0400 James Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com>
writes:
>
>The US is largely lacking in that sort of a conveyor belt, no
>doubt because the sort of an organized left such as exists
>in Britain has been largely absent in the US. On the other hand if
>we look at recent administrations in the US, one can certainly
>find some ex-leftists. Thus the budget director during Reagan's
>first term, David Stockman, was a New Left activist back in the
>1960s. The architect of Clinton's failed health care reform plan,
>David Magaziner, was a leftist activist back in the '60s and
>'70s.
That should be Ira Magaziner who more recently was involved in developing the Clinton Administration's Internet policies. Also, on the subject of ex-Marxists in mainstream politics, last Sunday's New York Times Magazine featured a profile on Marvin Olasky, ex-Communist, now a born again Christian and the idealogue of "compassionate conservatism" for Governor Bush's presidential campaign.
Jim F.
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