>Someone really went off the radar screen -- he suggested
>that Clark K was putting himself on good behavior in the Mumia
>campaign just to make himself look respectable. This is the furthest
>stretch of red-baiting: whenever communists say or do something
>right, they are just being sly. A year or so on femecon-l Doug
>objected vociferously to this kind of argumentation from Barbara
>Bergmann After over a quarter of a century of disliking the RCP
>and its predecessors I now find myself thinking that their ethics
>are a bit higher than typical lbo-talk behavior
What a blast of righteousness. It's not like anyone is saying Kissinger is a creep, so Mumia deserves the fatal jab.
Don't you find it a little disturbing that CCK is so enthusiastic about Mao's drug war? Doesn't that enthusiasm for vigorous state repression and public executions (but carefully titrated, no more than five or ten per city!), from a supposed leader of the free Mumia movement, bother you in the least? Oh but these are revolutionary Maoist firing squads, I forget.
This isn't "red-baiting"; I refuse to equate redness with Stalinism. The RCP is a rather Stalinophilic formation, isn't it? One that conceives of homosex as bourgeois decadence, tolerable under capitalism but curable by socialism? Nathan's tales of how cranks like these drove people away from the free Mumia movement is pretty relevant too.
Doug