SNET: I was a teenage communist

Graham graham at unacode.demon.co.uk
Sat Mar 11 04:44:35 PST 2000


Subject: RE: SNET: I was a teenage communist "Nathan Newman" <nathan.newman at yale.edu> writes
>On Behalf Of Michael Pugliese
[snip] I sympathize with the writers disdain for the particular species of limosine faux revolutionary that occasionally stalked the campus (with the emphasis on faux). [end snip]

I was also a teenage communist and have seen plenty of 'exposes' like the one listed. The reason they would appeal to anyone reading them is that they cash in on own goals found throughout the left - seeing the personal as political, lifestyle politics, disdain for working class people and a holier than thou attitude.

Graham Barnfield Fax. +44 (0)870 7345198 Editor, Culture Matters CMCRC strand: http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/cri/



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