The idea that Clark is "under a spell"/"in a cult" is also typical anti-party redbaiting. Clark" politics are better and thinking more actively rational and independent than most people who are not in parties.
Down with sexist redbaiting.
CB
>>> Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> 02/06/00 10:56PM >>>
Jim Heartfield wrote:
>In message <v04220812b4bd547adab6@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood
><dhenwood at panix.com> writes
>>Can't vouch for this, but Chuck0 pointed me to an article on Ramsey
>>Clark that makes you wonder just who he is. He always seemed a bit
>>fishy to me, but then I'm a suspicious guy.
>><http://shadow.autono.net/sin001/clark.htm>.
>
>I just read this through, also being interested in Clark's genesis. But
>the author of this piece considers it a criticism of Clark that he
>opposed military intervention in Iraq and refused to join in the
>demonisation of the United States' enemies. Clark clearly was an
>establishment figure, as was, say, John Stockwell, but his present-day
>opposition to US imperialism is not a sign of poor judgement, except to
>hawks. I guess that the real meaning of this article is that the author,
>a liberal moving to the right, passed Clark, a conservative moving to
>the left.
I basically agree with Jim. Besides the point Jim made, I'd also point out the sexist suggestion of the article:
***** WWP cadre Gavriella Gemma became a secretary in Clark's New York law office in 1977. In his New Republic piece, Judis suggests that Clark fell under her spell and was won over to the WWP. When David McReynolds of the War Resisters League met with Clark in 1990 to warn him that WWP was "using him," Clark refused to listen, constantly referring to what "Gavriella said." *****
Yeah, when a man moves leftward, chalk it all up to an evil "spell" of a communist woman. Wow, this is old! "Put the blame on Mame, boys, Put the blame on Mame...".
Yoshie