Could we concentrate on more important things than the ravings of the bitter and marginal? Doug
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I don't know about that. I rather enjoyed the ravings of the bitter and marginal. A vicious dog fight in a pack of mongrels drawing blood over a dead cat was entertaining. And it certainly puts Christopher Hitches polite little fog in the Wall Street Journal to shame.
Compare the two. Here's Hitches:
``..One can see the corollary of this point (diversity of conservatives) by examining the state of the liberal Left, which is over-anxious to present a facade of spurious "unity," and meager in its reluctance to concede anything which might redound to the credit of the president...''
Here's Pugliese then Perrin, then back:
``Here's an example of the "polemics" Dennis Perrin used on Henwood's list:
Yeesh. I click on the streaming video and who do I see first? Why, Larry Holmes of the fascist Workers World Party, the folks who backed Chinese state violence in Tienanmen Square. (I see that Holmes has been working on his Farrakhan impression.) Must we link arms with assholes like these? parasites who have no popular support but who latch onto any movement they can to advance their twisted authoritarian agenda? Fuck them and Ramsey Clark. DP
Until Perrin unsubbed from Henwood's list to complete work on a book that is certainly destined for the B&N remainders bin, this was the sort of thing he had been writing for months against people like Lou Paulsen, Carroll Cox and Yoshie Furuhashi--3 of the few more outspoken Marxists that kept up a residence there. When Henwood booted Charles Januzzi for a much milder infraction, the only conclusion one could draw is that he was creating a list hospitable to red-baiters, for that's the only word that can describe the sort of trash above. A lot of this junk is written from the standpoint of "libertarian socialism", autonomist Marxism or anarchism. As far as I'm concerned, it is old fashioned anti-Communism and becoming more virulent day by day as a new 1914 takes shape. --MP
I like that Barnes and Noble remainder bin bit---thinking Hitches will certainly join whatever is really there.
Besides the fact that I've followed most of what these people wrote, and have absolutely no interest in Hitches or the bland leading bland over at the WSJ, it also illustrates that any presumed unity of the left is a scream. I am not sure any of these people could agree on which company to contact for port-a-potty rentals. Its a miracle every time any demo happens.
Chuck Grimes