We'll know that US political culture has overcome the trauma of the Red Purge, when the WWP and political parties like it won't feel obliged to stay in such political closets as the IAC and the International ANSWER and when many progressive groups will be still willing to work with revolutionary Marxists out of the political closets. There are some Marxists in unions and the like, but they are not out.
At 12:58 PM -0500 3/5/03, Nathan Newman wrote:
>despite places where I was known to have more leftwing "commie" views.
That you were thought of as having "leftwing 'commie' views" says a lot about the depressing narrowness of US political culture.
At 12:58 PM -0500 3/5/03, Nathan Newman wrote:
>After the last month of internal withhunts within the Guild against
>me, culminating in almost an hour last night at the local NYC Guild
>chapter discussing the inappropriateness of my views on my weblog,
>personal email on this list, and assorted other ideological failings
>due to my criticism of the WWP, my tolerance for even a smidgen of
>defense for this "anti-redbaiting" crap is pretty much at an end.
An organization that tolerates red-baiting within will also tolerate red-baiting in US political culture. There is a local Green guy who regularly engages in red-baiting both anarchists and socialists and who is subscribed to the Committee for Justice in Palestine discussion listserv; whenever he gets too insistent, others ask him to take his crusade offlist. -- Yoshie
* Calendar of Events in Columbus: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html> * Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/> * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio> * Solidarity: <http://solidarity.igc.org/>