This is just an obnoxious personal atack on Nathan. It serves no useful purpose on this list.
-Chip
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Charles Brown
> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 4:43 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Covering Dissent
>
>
> Nathan:
>
> The New Left wasn't destroyed by the Right-- it collapsed of its own
> infighting. Sure COINTELPRO contributed, but the 70s and even
> the 80s was
> not McCarthyism. The Right were just smarter organizers.
>
> %%%%%
>
> CB: Since the Old and New Left were such "failures", why are
> you on the Left ? What makes you think you can succeed where
> they "failed" ? It seems that your current Left perspective
> is that the Left should support "imperialism" where Saddam,
> Milosovec and Bin Laden are its opponents. I take it that's
> the lesson you learned from the failures of the Old and New
> Left opposing imperialism: If you can't beat 'em; join 'em.
>