I had a nice conversation with a female NLG legal observer before the March who was very warm about Nathan. I've heard that Maoists of the more loony variety were strong in the NLG in the 70's. (The ironies, yup, that Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was the epitome of good legal process and procedures.)
Stalinists cry "red-baiting" in a demogogic response to Trotskyists, Socialists, libertarian communists, anarchists. They would have called Rosa Luxemburg a red-baiter. The experience of official "Communism" was the greatest incitement to the set of anti-Communist arguments going. Doubtless John's brother Shane, who was in the SWP, has been called a red-baiter for this, "The Stalinist Legacy, " edited by Tariq Ali, Lynne Rienner publishers reprint of the Penguin Books edition. Classics by LDT, Ernest Mandel, Rudolf Bahro, Isaac Deutscher, Comrade Khruschev's speech to the CPSU in '56, Daniel Singer.
-- Michael Pugliese
"Without knowing that we knew nothing, we went on talking without listening to
each other. Sometimes we flattered and praised each other, understanding that
we would be flattered and praised in return. Other times we abused and shouted
at each other, as if we were in a madhouse." -Tolstoy