Doug Henwood wrote:
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> As a partial explanation where I'm coming from, here's a taste of life
> around WBAI.
What is the evidence that WBAI is representative of "the left" in the u.s. As shag keeps saying, we need evidence that ther e is an audience out there in active involvement with left activity and who need a book to help them resist a [certain kind of left politics]. And that kind of left politics must be shown to be really threatening WITHIN THE LEFT. So you have to be pretty clear about what you mean by "The Left."
Are we by any chance talking about efforts to create a lefttist electoral party? What goal is this (so far not identifed)readership for WBM working towards that they can't achieve because they believe certain things that he proceeds to expose as bad politics? Where does that audience exist?
Or are you mainly concerned not with the u.s. left at all but with the audience of your show and f ears that that audience might be corrupted by those t errible people around you at WBAI. (I don't dubt they are terrible. I just want to know what political relevance that has.
I think it a waste of time for the most part to refute the posts of Chris Doss or Dennis Redmond on this list because I don't think they have any political effectiveness, though they might comfort some people in their passivity, but such people will find comfort somewhere, so why worry.
Who is WBM refuting who is a significant political force where?
Carrol