Re: [lbo-talk] Re: [DemocraticLeft] Slaves of Academe: We Don’t Need Another Hero

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 24 13:11:43 PST 2006


Jerry, nice post!

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



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