On Thu, 19 May 2005 07:14:36 -0600 Michael Pugliese
<michael.098762001 at gmail.com> writes:
> The case against the war is more than obvious. Always was and
> getting more evident to "the masses" who, though just like in the
> anti-Vietnam War era turned solidly against the war but at the same
> time got more and more repelled by the sectors of the anti-war
> movement that I'm feeling you would have found
> inopportune/inconvenient to criticize.
> As for the fSU for the zillionth time, during the 20's and after
> Comrade Khruschev's speech of '56, (which again I begin to feel you
> would have found awkward to welcome, not out of any symp. for Uncle
> Joe but, for, "no dirty laundry washing on the left, " tactical,
> expedient reasons) it was opening to te possibility of a true
> liberatory, democratic marxist/socialist society but (and I'll forego
> a long list of marxist books critical of the authoritarian aspects of
> Soviet reality and ideology...you'll never read 'em or the memoirs
> I've read by loyal Communists sent to the GULAG).
And all this stuff about the gulags and the liberatory possibilities of Soviet socialism is relevant to Doug's comments in what way?
> Not sure if you would have signed the notorious letter the week
> before the Stalin-Hitler Pact to The Nation by Stalinized
> "progressives" like Lillian Hellman, jumping all those "fascists"
> like
> Dwight Macdonald, but, like Lazare this week in The Nation letters,
> there is something sad and enraging in your Old Left bromides. The
> sector of the Old Left that the early New Left disavowed but by '67
> was in eclipse as the mass public face of the Movement by the
> M-L idiots that Marx would have found abhorent.
Hah?
> M.P.
>
>
> On 5/19/05, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> > Michael Pugliese wrote:
> >
> > > But, the Miriam Appeal docs. in Jordan. Why not release them?
> >
> > Why do you care about this shit? Bush & his towel boy Blair launch
> a
> > criminal war, and you're obsessing about hotel receipts. Between
> this
> > and the endless URLs pointing to loons, don't you have any sense of
> > priority or perspective?
> >
> > Doug
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