[lbo-talk] radio Henwood & Levy

[dave dorkin]

I didnt discuss your work in sum. The question
concerns a person who has had an long career of self
promotion, distortion and inattention to the facts,
most of which is available only in French which I seem
to recall you saying you don't read very well. You run
a show and your decisions can be discussed like
everyone else's. You decide Levy is worthy (based on
what exactly?) and anyone who questions why is a dour
"purist."

Is this "purism" the same sort of "purism" that the
entire European left displays in not inviting Levy 
and "banishing" him to Paris Match and assorted TV
programs? Are Le Monde Diplomatique, Liberation, the
Manifesto, Politis, Regards, and every other left
magazine, movement and forum in Europe also part of
this "purist" American left? 

So, have you followed his career, the French political
scene, and do you know BHL or, to enage in schematic
epithets as you seem to like, are you one of those
provincial American leftists who thinks he doesnt need
to read other languages and know foreign contexts well
before rushing to judgement?


> Take a look at the guestlist and tell me if it
displays a weakness for stars with extravagant hair. 
This is just the sort of purism that makes the
American left (oh, right, Carrol Cox says that doesn't
exist) so alienating and > marginal. Doug

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