attack on NC in American Prospect

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Oct 19 16:00:32 PDT 2001


C. G. Estabrook wrote:


>On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Mark Pavlick wrote:
>
>> http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2001/10/isaac-j-10-16.html
>
>This is a remarkably crude and ignorant piece of misrepresentation. Not
>only does the author, apparently purposely, misconstrue the (one) passage
>from Chomsky that he quotes, he also shows himself simply unfamiliar with
>what Chomsky has written elsewhere. (Cf. the remark on "speaking truth to
>power.") A serious attempt to respond to Chomsky from an American
>prospect position might be interesting, but this isn't it. --CGE

Isaac is a shit. He's got a stupid piece on the anti-sweatshop movement in the current Dissent (an affiliation that shows you where he's coming from).

Doug



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