you write:
>I remember during the 1980s, in a series of articles in Dissent
magazine, Paul Berman painted all of the anti-contra left as engaging
in a form of Che-chic. We were deluded supporters of authoritarianism
etc. His portrait of those of us in the Central American Solidarity
movement did not fit anyone that I knew. <
anyone who talks about a homogeneous "left" should be seen as _prima facie_ wrong. In fact, I think it's for those of us on the left to avoid this practice too.
-- Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles