----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Newman" <nathanne at nathannewman.org> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 1:06 PM Subject: Re: ANSWER, cops, breakaways
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
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> Nathan Newman wrote:
> >My god Doug-- if being a personable guy was exclusive of supporting
> >monstrous crimes, most of the worst crimes of history could not have
> >happened.
>
> -I said reasonable and sane and in his presentation non-monstrous.
> -When you hear all kinds of nasty things about a group and an actual
> -member fails to live up to the billing you wonder what's up. Maybe
> -it's all a ruse, who knows?
>
> I don't think either myself or Chuck ever said that WWP folks were
socially
> incompetent. Unlike the Sparts, they are solid organizers, grant them
that,
> which requires some degree of reasonable presentation of self. I've ended
> up working with them in other coalitions in the past (out in the Bay Area)
> and my points have repeatedly been that the problem is that their politics
> are monstrous and the effects of building empty coalitions led by them is
> the retardation of effective long-term mass organizing.
>
> And as I said, true monstrosity is the "banality of evil" that Arendt
noted
> where quite reasonable people believe and further quite evil ends, all
while
> smiling and kissing their children goodbye each morning. This applies
from
> WWP-allied North Korea to the Bush White House-- and to all their
defenders.
>
> -- Nathan Newman
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