<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2722" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>Charles Brown makes some good points here. Again, it calls my attention that in some left circles there is this careful, almost polite and deferential use of strong political terms. I remember a couple of years ago I went to a United For Peace  antiwar meeting and the moderator insisted that we shouldn't use the term "anti-imperialist" because "it'd scare people" off! . Amazing. During the last president`al campaign it was also suggested to avoid sounding anti-religious for fears of alienating the faithful. At this rate a successful campaign of stripping the left of its basic, long standing terminology will be accomplished soon in the name of politeness.</DIV> <DIV>In the meantime , a ruthless impolite right wing does not hesitate in using their old rude shibboleths such as calling "communists", stalinists" on any one on the left. Why can they, why can't us? </DIV> <DIV>Cristobal Senior </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>