My point is that Aristide is not that Aristide is a "scumbag" but, a flawed leader and that by the end of his term alot of the Haitian left opposed Lavalas.
What is this Old Left defensiveness? Circle the wagons, don't admit what we say to each other in person, or offlist, 'cuz well what? Centrists and Rightists gets tons of ammo from your type of disingenuousness, trying to defend the indefensible whether about Alger Hiss or whatevah.
To paraphrase a book on New wave, "Like the New Left and the trots never existed." that is what I see in screeds like Lazare in the letters this week in The Nation.
On 5/20/05, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Michael Pugliese wrote:
>
> >http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2004/2004-March/004977.html
> >http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2004/2004-March/004978.html
> >http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2004/2004-April/007266.html
> >http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2004/2004-July/014432.html
>
> What is this supposed to mean? Two of these URLs are basically
> references to other URLs. Is your point that Aristide really is a
> scumbag? Is your point that was should go reviewing your elusive
> points from a year ago? If you had a point, could you express it in a
> few sentences instead of this self-parodistic citationality?
>
> Doug
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