fantasy and political organization

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jun 5 08:44:05 PDT 2001


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>According to the documentary _America: Love It or Leave It_, 125,000
>Americans went to Canada -- as draft resisters, deserters, or
>political exiles (self-imposed or otherwise) -- during the Vietnam
>War, so back then to become a Canadian (resident or citizen) could
>mean to become un-American ideologically.

Yeah, but let's not concede too much to the dominant ideology - there are lots of Americans who aren't bigoted imperialists, even if the government and media are full of them.

Doug



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