Horowitz has always been a jerk. He was a jerk when he helped edit RAMPARTS. His personality never changed.
------------------------ Jim Devine jdevine at lmu.edu & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wojtek Sokolowski [mailto:sokol at jhu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 8:15 AM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Horowitz trashes Berlet for criticism
> on racism
>
>
> Jim:
> I used to know that creep (he was a friend of an
> ex-girlfriend of mine).
> His driving forces seem to be
> (1) a feeling of betryal: he made the mistake of embracing the Black
> Panther Party at a time when most other White leftists in the Bay Area
> were moving away from them. They allegedly killed a friend of his who
> had done their accounting and figured out that the BPP was crooked.
> (2) hatred of his mother, who was a Communist Party organizer, perhaps
> the most important one in Brooklyn.
> Jim Devine
>
> How about self-promotion by generating public mini-scandals?
>
> Wojtek
>
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