JKSCHW at aol.com wrote:
> Sure, but it's not "Stalinism" that does it--it's any commitment to the left, or near it. It wouldn't have helped if my ex-collegaues had been clearer, had they cared, that I am an anti-Stalinist. There is an old joke about a cop in a labor dispute who starts to beat up a scab: "You commie scum!" he yells, belaboring ahim about the head. "Wait, wait," said the the scab, "I am an anticommunist!" "I don't care what kind of communist you are," says the cop. "All you reds are the same to me!" And I don't think that criticism of evil, vile, and stupid positions among ourselves ought to be muted because in the wrong context, like a departmental retention evaluation, which this is not, they might be misused. --jks
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