[lbo-talk] Cuba petition

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Apr 16 09:36:19 PDT 2003


"C. G. Estabrook" wrote:
>
> Shows that it was possible to call things by their right names in 1946.
>
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Michael Pugliese wrote:
>
> > ...Corey in an article in the Antioch Review in '46 made a case for
> > Stalinists not being a tendency on Left at all, but as a totalitarian
> > interloper from the Right.

Yes, and those interlopers from the right made possible the civil rightsd movement, made possible the antiwar movement, and made possible the existence of all of us on this list today.

If only they had all followed Norman Thomas or Lionel Trilling. We'd still have Jim Crow in the South and no one would ever have heard of the Vietnam antiwar movement.

Carrol



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