[lbo-talk] Cuba petition

[C. G. Estabrook]

Yes, but their contributions came not because they were Stalinists
(insofar as they were) but because they were on the Left. To see Stalinism
as a betrayal of socialism -- and to oppose it from the Left, not the
Right -- would seem to be correct in 1946 and after.  To pose the question
as a choice between Stalinism and Thomas or Trilling is sharply to delimit
the possibilities.  --CGE

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Carrol Cox wrote:


> 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