[lbo-talk] finally kicked off of marc cooper's anti-totalitarian blog comments section!

[philion at stolaf.edu]

Alas, at 12:41 I was kicked off of Marc Cooper's blog comments section. He
could no longer hack a leftist who didn't conform to his stereotypes of
leftists that disagree with him as people who are just protesting for fun
or who worship stalinist rulers of the past.  Nothing drove Cooper battier
than mentioning that the views I expressed were consistent with those that
many people whom he calls his good friends [i.e. messers henwood, maurice
zeitlin, jerry lembcke, adolph reed]. He needed lefties to play the role
of worshippers of amy goodman and who have never read any of the people
that he claims to be close to intellectually and personally.

Irony of ironies, he kicked me off in a thread on totalitarianism in
Czechoslovakia and my supposed refusal to see that bad things happened in
Eastern Europe.  That in addition to my calling his Republican good friend
GM Roper on his latter day belief that Pinochet was a bad bad dude, when
not  a single Republican opposed Nixon and Kissinger's economic subversion
of Allende, not to mention his eventual military coup.

On a day Michael Pugliese is lecturing us about totalitarianism on the
left...this is truly a testimony to the alternatives to leftist
totalitarianism (!).

Steve