[lbo-talk] "Cadre"? Re: dalai lama in nyc

[Devine, James]

I see nothing wrong with attending events organized by the Democratic Party (a notorious pro-capitalist organization). Nor do I see anything wrong with attending events organized by the WWP. 

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Jim Devine jdevine at lmu.edu &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yoshie Furuhashi [mailto:furuhashi.1 at osu.edu]
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 10:15 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: [lbo-talk] "Cadre"? Re: dalai lama in nyc
> Importance: High
> 
> 
> After a busy day of tabling, I look into the LBO-talk archive and 
> happen on this gem of WWP-baiting.
> 
> At 2:56 PM -0700 9/22/03, Michael Pugliese wrote:
> >What Dennis, Nathan, Thomas Seay, me and others argue is not that 
> >one should abstain from attending but, draw, 'er, "lines of 
> >demarcation, " between cadre like Yoshie that work with and pressure 
> >other coalitions like UfPJ, to build a united front w/ such 
> >Stalinist formations, whose conception of socialism is what the 
> >young Marx called "barracks communism".
> 
> I suppose that some American leftists will be forever prisoners of 
> the rhetoric of the Red Purge, which insinuates that so and so is 
> secretly a card-carrying a member of such and such (CPUSA back then, 
> WWP now, something else in the future).
> 
> Just out of curiosity, what organizations of which do you 
> think I am a "cadre"?
> 
> Beyond doing local activist work, I am a National Committee member of 
> Solidarity, a Coordinating Committee member of Al-Awda, and a 
> Steering Committee member of United for Peace and Justice.
> 
> Locally, I'm involved in the Committee for Justice in Palestine 
> <http://www.osudivest.org/> among many other organizations, and CJP 
> is hosting the Third Annual Conference of the Palestine at the Ohio 
> State University (to the displeasure of the ANSWER/FPA folks who are 
> backing New Jersey Solidarity, which has lost the confidence of a 
> number of Palestine solidarity groups, I may add): Registration, 
> <http://www.palestineconference.com/register.htm>; Endorsement, 
> <http://www.palestineconference.com/endorsers.htm>; Donation (via 
> PayPal), <http://www.osudivest.org/> (click on the link "Donate Now").
> -- 
> Yoshie
> 
> * Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/>
> * Calendars of Events in Columbus: 
> <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html>, 
> <http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/>
> * 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://www.solidarity-us.org/>
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