[lbo-talk] Berube & Horowitz

Max B. Sawicky sawicky at bellatlantic.net
Sun Feb 27 12:28:47 PST 2005


Actually this piece of MB doesn't sit well w/me. I don't know when exactly Horowitz jumped ship with the Panthers, but they didn't evolve all that much. They weren't as bad as MB suggests in their latter days, nor as good at the beginning.

> The real issue is this. Some years ago, I

> referred to David Horowitz as a former member

> of the “far left.” By this I meant that he

> stayed with the Panthers for years after every

> sane leftist in America realized that they’d

> degenerated into a handful of paramilitary thugs,

> and now he goes around blaming the rest of the

> sixties left for his own hideous political

> judgment.

The little bugger is indicting all of us, with the broadest conspiranoid conception of "us," for his own poor judgment. (Pardon my sloth; I haven't scoured the Nation's website for the old Nation article that documents his credulity past.) He indicts "the left" to exonerate himself.

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