Dwayne and y'all...even those who call me a shit, whatever mh called me recently, even CB who has a http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=trotsky_icepick waiting for me ;-)
There are 'tudes expressed here only slightly less loony than what I've heard since the late 70's on Pacifica Radio on everything from DU and the fSU and beyond that go unchallanged...example, John Mage recently wishing the Red Army had conquered Western Europe. That, for one such as I, compulsive-obsessive that I am, w/ boxes of copies of The New Masses and The Nation from the 30's and 40's and having talked w/many an old Communist, Trotskyist or Socialist active over those decades, most of whom remained on the Left but, w/o much cavilling admitted that most if not all of the case by those dreaded Trots and liberal anti-Communists was correct, can only fly into one of manic URL burst here. (Which I do far less than I used to, no? I mean there comes a point you just say, CD, CB, just like I have their entrenched 'tudes and let it be...)
My broader 'tude towards Fisk and Fisking, well, I read a bit of his huge book, was more impressed than I thought I'd be but, would agree w/ the review in the Nation that drew some blood. Behind my "Left Activist Consensus Mileau, " says X well I'll just say anti-X is a ornerniness yes but, also (citing that Walter Lippman Castrofile on marxmail recently who couldn't get his activist friends to read the new book by Steven Kinzer, "Overthrow, " a left-liberal book blurbed by Sy Hersh and Chalmers Johnson 'cuz they said he was pro-Contra...when he wasn't!) a rage/despair against activists that latch onto ONE journalist or expert and never read anyone else or look for critiques.