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> Seems to me that a lot of old-line leftists - even those who are not old
> in years - are as annoyed as hell that a new radical movement has grown,
> devoid of affiliations to the old-line left. So a lot of resentments are
> being aired in the form of implausible theories. Of course, a lot of the
> more imaginative old-line leftists could be inspired by the new
> movements, and be willing to listen to them and join their forums and
> protests. And why not? Why come up with such entirely cynical analyses,
> Yoshie?
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> Doug
Shades of the infamous browbeating by Irving Howe, Michael Harrington and Manny Geltman of the League for Industrial Democracy to Tom Hayden, Steve Max and Todd Gitlin of SDS where Geltman lifted up his shirt to show off the scars the CPUSA had given to him in 1934 when the Party had assaulted a mass Socialist Party meeting at Madison Square Garden to protest the Austrian rightists taking power. Pappa Old Left always thinks He Knows Better than these Adventurist, Undiscplined Radicals. -- Michael Pugliese American imperialism has been made plausible and attractive in part by the insistence that it is not imperialistic. Harold Innis, 1948 http://www.monthlyreview.org/sr2004.htm