Valid Materialist Theory/And the Trillings

[Michael Pugliese]

Roger Odisio wrote commenting on Rob Schaap:
>Ahh, Mark Lane.  He was the first point man for the argument that the
Warren
Commission report was nothing but a cover-up--that that was its purpose.
There
were a lot of books on the topic, but his got particular attention.  It was
early, thorough, and he was articulate and  reveled in controversy.  He
would
show up on talk shows--often appearing between a juggler and actor plugging
a
movie--and give his spiel.  He had a distinct sense of calm about him, which
stood him in good stead as he explained how the most respected public
figures
>in the country were lying.

Mark Lane showed up in Jonestown a few days before the
"drink the koolaid" mass suicide-CIA slaughter (take your pick, there are
conspiracy theories there natch, I can forward the URL's for sites with
volumnious documentation including the House committee hearings...).

He married the daughter of Willis Carto, the Liberty Lobby/Spotlight
"populist". He's a lawyer for them. Represented them when they sued the WSJ
for defamation. Cf. Larry Mintz, "The Liberty Lobby and the American Right,
" Greenwood Press, published mid-70's.

Lastly a piece on Lane when he was early on in his notoriety was published
in Partisan Review
around 1965 or 1966. Has that sneering tone
of the oh so sure Cold War Libs, but still take a look. (And on that tone
cf. Diana Trilling, "The Other Night At Columbia, "her piece on ex-Lionel
Trilling student, Allen Ginsberg. It's in her
, "We Must March, My Darlings!" Also see her autobiography of her life with
Lionel. What did Lionel say about the right in The Liberal Imagination.
Hereb it is, "But the conservative impulse and the reactionary impulse do
not, with some isolated and some ecclesiastical exceptions, express
themselves in ideas but only in action but only in action or in irritable
mental gestures which seem to resemble ideas." (Cf. The Conservative
Intellectual Movement In America, Since 1945, George H. Nash, Basic Books,
1st ed. 2nd ed. Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Also Arthur McGovern book
on neo-conservatism that Temple Univ. Press published. He is a DSA'er
that has also published on Marxism and religion.

                       Michael Pugliese