>Apparently, the premise of the piece in New Politics,(on the
>Frances Stonor-Saunders book on the CIA and the CCCF) , the left
>socialist journal, did not/cannot sink in to certain brain cavities.
>Uncritical alignment with either Cold War Empire With All It's
>Requisite Means of Coercion and Consent exerted a powerfully
>baleful influence on the Broad Left from 1917 on.
Apparently Saunders' book didn't sink into certain brain cavities. She's not a Soviet apologist. Maybe to an anti-Soviet leftist the refusal to denounce the USSR as the evil empire loudly and repeatedly is the equivalent of being a Soviet apologist, but to less dogmatic sorts, it isn't.
At this point in history, the endless harping on the failure of certain leftists to be sufficiently critical of the USSR 70 years ago serves little purpose except to prepare the ground for an apology for Western imperialism. Otherwise, it's not the liveliest of issues.
Doug