[lbo-talk] Re: Just Do Something!

[Seth Kulick]

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> Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 17:46:44 -0700
> From: Michael Pugliese <michael098762001 at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Just Do Something!
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> On Thu, 06 May 2004 18:37:19 -0400, Lance Murdoch <lancemurdoch at lycos.com> 
> wrote:
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>  Noam Chomsky is probably the
> > most influential intellectual alive in the left today.  He does not go to 
> > socialist scholars conferences...
> http://www.google.com/search?q=socialist+scholars+conference+Chomsky
>    Alternative Radio - Programs
> ... Noam Chomsky/Barbara Ehrenreich/Michael Dyson, et al. 1999 Socialist 
> Scholars
> Conference(2 Tape Set) #CHON-EHRB-DYSM001. Noam Chomsky/Howard Zinn. ... 
> http://www.alternativeradio.org/programs/speakers/CHON.html

Chomsky was also there in I think 1986 speaking on "Israel and the American
Left" with Paul Berman and Ellen Willis.  I once got this on tape from
Barsamian.  As I recall, Willis doesn't say a word after the opening 
statements, as Chomsky and Berman go at it.  Berman starts by quoting
Bernard Lewis - it's all a double standard against Israel, etc.  Later on
somebody brings up Faurrison (audible groans from the audience), and Berman
apparently displays a copy of the latest revisionist publication from the 
Guillaume publishing house The Old Mole, saying that he had a feeling it
might come up.  It's all pretty gruesome.  It's been a long time since
I've heard this, but my impression was that  Berman dealt with everything
at a symbolic emotional level, saying stuff like "Zionism is about the
Jews in the Middle East having an army" (I swear, I think that's close to
an exact quote.)