[lbo-talk] From 2000 to 2004 (Re: Ralph the rightwinger)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>[lbo-talk] Re: Ralph the rightwinger
>arash at riseup.net arash at riseup.net, Mon Mar 22 21:31:04 PST 2004
<snip>
>>I am not sure if it is his first published article, but the 
>>earliest piece I was able to find by Ralph Nader was published in 
>>the ultra-conservative American Mercury magazine in March 1960.
>
>So does that make Chomsky rightwing for publishing in Commentary?  I 
>see the drawbacks in Ralph campaigning for corporations to just be 
>more responsible, but I don't see what's wrong with him trying to 
>get his message across to whoever is willing to listen.
>
>Arash

In 2000, Doug posted the same Bruce Bartlett article with a different 
subject line: "Nader, conservative?," 
<http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2000/2000-September/016553.html>.  It 
didn't appear to occur to Doug or anyone else on LBO-talk to think of 
the Bartlett article as a good reason to vote against Nader in 2000

Anyhow, if it is bad to publish an article in a right-wing 
publication in 1960, isn't it worse to be a right-wing party activist 
in 1972?

*****   I Was a Teen-Age Reactionary
Doug Henwood
Bad Subjects, Issue # 36, February 1998

I have an embarrassing confession to make: in 1972, I cast my first 
ever presidential votes - primary and general - against Richard 
Nixon, because he wasn't conservative enough. The final straw was 
wage and price controls, a statist defilement of the market's purity. 
. . .

The moment I got to college, I joined Yale's Party of the Right. . . .

Barry Goldwater Monthly meetings were held at Mory's, the Old Blue 
hangout, and involved collectively drinking a giant silver cup of a 
green cocktail. . . .

<http://eserver.org/bs/36/henwood.html>   *****
-- 
Yoshie

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