A defense of Lou was Re: A defense of NACLA

[Gary MacLennan <g.maclennan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lou this is a deeply sickening response to your criticism.  They call you
abusive and of course they then resort to abuse. Nowhere is there any
attempt to engage with the detail of your criticism of the NACLA stance on
Latin America. that is nothing less than a disgrace.  Your charges were of
the most serious kind and they should have been addressed not avoided.

What is especially annoying is that the battle ground is now.  People will
die and die horribly if a solidarity movement is not built with the poor of
Latin America.  The editorial Board of NACLA has a deep responsibility in
this conjuncture to get their analysis correct.  Obviously perfection here
is impossible.  Epistemology is doomed to be relative.  But what should not
be at all relative is a clear understanding that American imperialism must
be opposed.  If this requires criticism and dialogue, and it does, then
that should be welcomed.

Now the rot about the "National Industrial Leftism", "romantic
revolutionaries" and nostalgia for the Russian Revolution amounts to
nothing more than cant.   Cant from a bunch of academics who do not want to
address the central issue of what their responsibility is when their own
ruling class is about to launch a new war against a disadvantaged
peasantry.  Like the English Left Liberal intelligentsia around the Irish
Question, these NACLA types will always squirm to try and avoid the place
of decision.

Of course they will heap opprobrium on anyone who dares point out exactly
what they are doing.  Meanwhile the dead are many.  And that unfortunately
is not elsewhere.

warm regards