> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Thomas Seay
> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 11:44 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: RE: Elbaum's "Revolution in the Air"
>
>
>
> --- Chip Berlet <cberlet at igc.org> wrote:
> > >
> > The group I was talking about ended up the Communist
> > Workers Party.
> >
>
>
> I was in the Communist Workers Party...Maybe,
> probably, almost certainly I knew your wife. I came
> in to the WVO late (1977, as a senior in High School)
> but I remember the line was that homosexuality was
> bourgeois decadence. This line rather abruptly began
> to change around early 1980 when the CWP went through
> a major reversal of line.
>
Actually, my wife was in one of the pro-Albanian groups, but I knew about 20 folks from WVO in Washington, DC in 1975-77
> Anyway, I am about 60 pages into the Elbaum book, and
> it is an amazing chronicle of events of that time,
> although its analysis seems to be somewhat reformed
> "Line of March".
Or "March in Line" as we used to say. I used to hang out with Phil Ochs, and when he died a suicide, Irwin Silber wrote a really nasty obit denouncing him a sell out. Really grotesque. It was a major reason I resisted recruitment by various cadre groups. I wrote a sympathetic obit for WIN magazine.
icky...
-Chip
>
> Thomas
>
>
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>
> -Karl Marx
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