> > I don't think it's irrelevant to wonder about the ideological and
> > employment history of someone who's had a divisive and conservatizing
> > influence on American feminism. Did Steinem know who was behind the
> > CCF and the NSA?
>
>And did she care? If it allowed her to do what she wanted to do politically
>(whether you agree with her or not), does it matter that much where the
>money came from?
Well yeah, it would to me. Not to be too rigid or anything, but the CIA is evil.
> My problem with the AFL-CIO actions funded by the CIA is
>not that they were funded by that agency, but that what they did was so
>abominable.
And there's no cause-effect here? Would the CIA have funded the work if it hadn't been abominable?
>It's worth remembering that a lot
>of conservatives were pretty outraged as well at the fact that moderately
>left groups were receiving government money.
Ah yes, the U.S. political spectrum - CIA-certified liberals to rightwing maniacs. God bless America.
>Folks who fronted for Stalinism made their own
>compromises as well.
Yup. That's what I meant when I said the CP had a lot to be ashamed of.
> > >As noted, there are plenty of things Steinem can be criticized on
> > >substantively for her political work, but I again wonder at the
> > joy of some leftists in slagging one of the handful of top feminists
>willing
> > to publicly identify herself as a socialist.
> >
> > When did she do that? She always seemed bourgeois to me, even when
> > she wasn't dancing with Mort Zuckerman.
>
>Her picture and endorsing quotation is on the main Democratic Socialists of
>America literature. I think their present big name line-up is John Sweeney,
>Delorese Heurta, Cornell West, Eric Dyson, Ed Asner, Barbara Ehrenreich, and
>Gloria Steinem.
Strange company. If Sweeney is a socialist, I'll eat my UAW card. Maybe Steinem thought she was signing up for Democratic Socialites of America.
Doug