Gitlin on the student peace movement

ppillai at sprint.ca ppillai at sprint.ca
Fri Sep 21 15:07:57 PDT 2001


Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> Nathan is not the right. He may be the right compared to some people
> on this list, maybe most people, but he's a radical and a socialist
> by any normal political taxonomy. Please, let's avoid this sort of
> name-slinging.
>
> Doug

Aw Pa, I was only funnin' .

But as I recall Nathan offered to take up the mantle of the right after the departure of dear Leo. And you gotta admit, arguing that the left's only choice is either to line up behind, support and morally legitimate the worlds biggest butcher and exporter of terror and other unimaginable horrors, as a moral arbiter, justified in sitting in judgement over its victims (however twisted such victims may have become due to said terror) -- or failing that, accept that the only fair recourse the state has is to intensify its already savage war against the worlds poor becuse some its victims managed to slip out from beneath your bloodied boot for the first time in 50+ yrs and deliver a blow -- is a pretty good start.

-Pradeep



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