Cooper on PA

Chuck Munson chuck at tao.ca
Fri Feb 8 20:42:26 PST 2002


"Max B. Sawicky" wrote:
>
> Six hours later and the silence is deafening. - mbs
>
> I'll take some of that. Tell me when you
> think he defects, and define defection
> reasonably. Winner buys loser
> big lunch at the Fourth Estate (17th & L)
> and suffers subsequent ridicule on LBO
> for some appropriate length of time.
>
> mbs
> (older white guy from old new left. Have business
> cards but never remember to bring them with me.)
>
> > Let's face it, LBOers, Marc Cooper is a jerk and a self-important
> > scumbag. ANy of you want to take bar bets with me on when he completely
> > sells out and starts writing for Front Page magazine? . . .

I'll take the bet, but I think we will have difficulty agreeing on the definition of "defection." This could take a year or several years. He's starting to move in that direction with the cheap Chomsky bashing and the swipe at Indymedia (which get more hits than The Nation website). Perhaps the thing that will push him over will be his realization later this year that the rest of the left sees him as a traitor, for want of a better word. What will he do when he loses his paying gig at Pacifica? We all know how politics works. He backed the wrong horse in the revolution. He has to pack and move out of the palace.

Definition? Perhaps a clear article that attacks not just an element on the left, but the entire "left."

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