Michael Yates
Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Comrade Cox wrote:
>
> >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