-- Jim Cullen
>Hi,
>
>Citing Alexander Cockburn on Populism is like citing Neville Chamberlain on
>Peace.
>
>Cockburn's inability to see that populism can move left or right is one
>reason Matt Lyons and I wrote a whole book on the subject. Populism is not a
>radical analysis.
>
>See Joel Kovel's critical essay "Beyond Populism" at:
>
>http://www.publiceye.org/Sucker_Punch/Clueless.html
>
>And just in time for light holiday reading:
>
>Right-Wing Populism in America:
>Too Close for Comfort
>
>by Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons
>
>(New York: Guilford Publications, 2000)
>
>
>-Chip Berlet
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 7:42 PM
>Subject: Re: The Democratic Party & the Illusion of Splits in the
>RulingClass, was Re: Cockburn: The Coup
>
>
>> Chris Kromm wrote:
>>
>> >Alexander Cockburn puts the point nicely in one of his essays, that you
>can
>> >win over lots of people to radical ideas (even marxist ones) in America,
>but
>> >only if dressed in the language of populism.
> >
> > Hmm, what's that mean? Put a petit bourg spin on everything?
> >
> > Doug