> ChuckO quoted:
>
> "These groups, according to the memo, include "peace groups, anti-nuke
> groups, civil liberties groups, Muslim groups, anti-Israel groups and
> immigration groups." Soon to be added will be "science groups, labor
> groups, business groups, gun-control groups, abortion groups, and
> various special interest lobbies." Presumably not included, however, are
> those lobbies that represent right-wing views. The fact that many of
> these "leftist" groups are pretty mainstream is irrelevant to Horowitz."
>
> ...think that will organize/unify the left? Horowitz's witch hunts may
> have unintended consequences.
Horowitz really doesn't have much of an effect on the greater American left, but I think he is having a big impact on college campuses.
His efforts on campus will have unintended consequences. I've been an anarchist activist for almost twenty years, partly because I was radicalized as a student in response to right wing extremism on campus in the 1980s. I was a Young Democrat at the University of Kansas in 1984. I started getting involved in student politics for two reasons. One reason was the South African divestment movement. The other reason was the right wing students who were trying to defund gay and lesbian groups on campus. I was asked by other student activists to run for Student Senate in order to help block the defunding campaign aimed at Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas (GLSOK). I had the fortune of running unopposed as a candidate from the fine arts school.
We managed to stop the right wingers and those experiences started me down the path that I still am on today. ;-)
I now eat right wingers for breakfast.
Chuck0