[lbo-talk] Tony Judt on the death of liberalism in America

[Jerry Monaco]

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>    Textual evidence from the MoJo pieces or articles in Dissent? One
> of the ones in the latter was reprinted in a recent collection of
> pieces from Dissent.
>     Wouyld you condemn the trenchant crits by anarchist Sam Dolgoff of
> Huberman and Sweezy on the Cuban Revolution, derived partly from Cuban
> libertarian socialists?
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> http://silverback.gnn.tv/blogs/9988/Paul_Berman_on_Sandinistas_anarchists_and_the_cult_of_Che
>    Stephen Marshall: Let's jump back in time to the infamous 1986
> article you wrote in Mother Jones, which I find really fascinating.
> When you wrote that, it was the second and last part of a series you
> had been sent out there to report – I figured that Michael Moore
> became Editor of the magazine between the two.
>

Pugliese,

Why in the hell are you posting this stuff?  Have you actually read his
articles in Dissent and compared them to reality?  They are a fine tissue of
lies.

For instance he claims in one of his Dissent pieces that the Sandinistas
came to power because Carter pulled the rug out from under Somoza and that
the U.S. was happy to support the Sandinistas until they showed their true
colors as Communists.  He gives statistics of "aid" to the Sandinista
government under Carter without once pointing out that the aid to the
Sandinista government was money given to the Sandinista opposition.  This is
something I remember from my notes at the time.  I would have to actually
dig up the article to expose his weave of propaganda.  He mostly lies by
ommission but what he was doing was supplying "left" justification for a U.S.
war of terror on a small country.

But who cares.  You certainly don't. Great, the Sandinista's were Marxist
Leninists!  Let's send a terrorist army to blow up medical clinics and
schools in small villages.  It's right to do so because those people are
commies.

JM
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