>Mock naive question. What is "red-baiting"?
In this case, making a big deal out of ANSWER's role in the antiwar movement. One thing you gotta admit about a Leninist organization is that they're really good at picking dates, getting permits, and hiring buses. No one cares about their agenda. Take advantage of their discipline.
I signed my name to a bus roster when I rode with ANSWER in 2003. They've never tried to recruit me to their awful party, or to lobby me to wear a North Korean red star. It's just twisted purism to care.
> Stalinists use the term
>one way, 99% demogogically. Is it asking inconvenient questions of
>Stalinized Communists? Anti-Stalinist communists, socialists, social
>democrats, left-liberals, use it another way as when liberals, welfare
>state or otherwise, are accused falsely by McCarthyites of being
>Stalinized Communists.
> UfPJ has CPUSA and ex-CPUSA leaders, among other marxist and
>non-marxist tendencies. I have no problem with Leslie Cagan and the
>CPUSA rep. on the UfPJ steering committee or Bob Wing, ex cadre in
>Line of March. Allowing those Stalinist ANSWER pricks to browbeat and
>harangue themselves into an unwarrented leadership role in a PEACE
>movement, when there hasn't been a TANK they ever saw mowing down
>workers, peasants and students they haven't supported, is the scandal.
No one except you, David Corn, Marc Cooper, and Nathan Newman really finds this a scandal. Carrol Cox's liberal comrades in Illinois don't care. Philip Weiss, writing in this week's New York magazine, doesn't care. This is sectarianism disguised as anti-sectarianism. The cold war is long over. Give it up.
Doug