ex-radicals?

rhisiart at mail.earthlink.net rhisiart at mail.earthlink.net
Wed Feb 5 13:53:18 PST 2003


this fighting within the "left" must give the opposition a great deal of comfort -- assuming the right cares at all about what's become an impotent force in US politics.

"when ideologues collide." there's so little territory on the left that remains to be fought over, it's an embarrassment to see people who could work together fight for their "ideals" or "principles" while entirely loosing sight of human needs. who needs any of them?

R

At 01:08 PM 2/5/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Nathan Newman wrote:
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
>>
>>>the role of The Nation comes as no surprise, either.
>>
>>-How's that? Despite Corn & Cooper's associations with The Nation,
>>-these articles haven't appeared there, because such attacks on the
>>-antiwar movement aren't welcome in the magazine. Corn's appeared in
>>-the LA Weekly, Cooper's in the LA Times, and the odious Gitlin's in
>>-Mother Jones. Perhaps you should rephrase this.
>>Which speaks to why Hitchens left the Nation, since even dissenting views
>>from long-time columnists are not welcome there. This closing down of



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