1. Where is this commentary by Alterman on the Lazare Letter, and what the hell is that letter?
2. What is the meaning of "NRO's The Corner"? What does NRO mean. What Corner?
3. Who are Kevin Coogan and Clare Spark?
4. Who is Tim Ward, and why is he of any importance to anyone?
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The following are more matter of interpretation, but I think of some interest.
5. Would Solidarity or CoC be included in his list of marxist sects?
6. Why does he assume the "Old, OLD left apologia shtick" is of current interest, in what does it consist, and why is it wrong?
7. What is MP's understanding of "pwoggie illusions"?
8. (This is probaly a guess for anyone.) Who would he be referring to as "creeps and fools"?
Carrol
Michael Pugliese wrote:
>
> Fry Julius R., No...Jeesh. Care to fry up another conjecture?
> What is it in the fellow travelling mentality, (unlike those that
> are active in marxist sects as cadre that can argue about Chavez or
> Aristide w/o this naive, sentimentalizing hero worship?) that Alterman
> pointed out on his comments on the Lazare letter, of The Nation of 19
> fuckin' '39, that you are doing a great imitation of lately, that can
> react with ferocity to left crits, not say NRO's The Corner for fryin'
> out loud, with this BS about State Dept. Socialism?
> Kevin Coogan and Clare Spark among other ex-leftists disabused of
> their pwoggie illusions, tell me that as the American Left gets tinier
> and tinier, the creeps and the fools have a greater voice. I've
> defended you ad nauseum to folks on the Left opposed to this Old, OLD
> left apologia shtick, whether they are anarchists like Tom Ward or
> Trots or whatevah, but, it seemed like I was mistaken for the last 5
> yrs in thinking was a fora for the rational sector of the US Left.
> Bye.
>
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> Michael Pugliese