[lbo-talk] Reposting for Dworkin Thrread: Terrain of Struggle was O'Reilly vs Churchill]

[Carrol Cox]

Slightly edited for current use. I haven't had time to read many posts
yesterday or today, but I understand someone brought up the old chestnut
that X will be/is/was "self-defeating" re Dworkin.

Carrol

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Subject: [lbo-talk] Terrain of Struggle was O'Reilly vs Churchill
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:00:16 -0600
From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>

snit snat wrote:
> 
> YOu need another third who doesn't hate you or disrepsect you enough to
> trot off to the other third's side when things heat up. The WCs of the
> world do us no favors in that regard.

There will ALWAYS be a DWORKIN. There will ALWAYS be Weatherman groups.
There will ALWAYS be Ward Churchills. There will ALWAYS be Michael
Puglieses. There will ALWAYS be Sparacist factions. There will ALWAYS be
Nathan Newmans. There will ALWAYS be SLAs. There will ALWAYS be
provocateurs. There will ALWAYS be Bob Avakians. There will ALWAYS be
Michael Dawsons. There will ALWAYS be worse things than any of these.
Get used to it or get out of the kitchen. It's simply the terrain that
leftists or left organizations have to operate on, and it is silly to
caterwaul about it. If a left [OR A FEMINIST MOVEMENT] can't operate on
that kind of terrain (or worse) than a left or even an imitation left
can't operate, period.

Carrol

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