My objection was not to "any criticism of ANSWER" or any other socialist organization for that matter, but to the habit of insinuation a la Michael Pugliese's posting that I flagged:
At 1:14 AM -0400 9/23/03, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>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"?
It is surely unnecessary for anyone to imply that I am secretly "a cadre" of WWP to criticize WWP or my support of particular demonstrations initially called by ANSWER or anything else. -- Yoshie
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