Liberal redbaiting escalates

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

(Right on the heels of Liza Featherstone's smear job on Oct. 26th, we have
this gob of spit from the premium edition of salon.com. Although
Featherstone put a kosher stamp on Oct. 6th, she did so in the course of
endorsing the dreadful Todd Gitlin referred to below, who is one of the
leading liberal enemies of the left in the USA. One can only imagine that
if she knew in advance that the Maoist RCP had initiated Oct. 6th, she
probably would have condemned that as well.)


Peace kooks
The new antiwar movement is in danger of being hijacked by bizarre
extremist groups -- and most protesters don't even know it.

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By Michelle Goldberg

Oct. 16, 2002  |  NEW YORK -- On Oct. 6, an antiwar movement seemed to have
blossomed in New York. A sea of people -- newspaper estimates ran from
10,000 to 20,000 -- filled Central Park's East Meadow to protest a possible
U.S. invasion of Iraq. And yes, there were the usual suspects, like the
girl from the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade who donned a kaffiyeh
and hurled red-faced imprecations against capitalist tyranny.

But there were many more average people, the kind who don't usually spend
their sunny Sunday afternoons demonstrating against government policy --
suburban middle-class families, Muslim women from Brooklyn and Queens in
headscarves and sneakers, wry upper West Side yuppies, downtown hipsters,
rabbis and angry grandmothers representing their churches. They were
matched by smaller demonstrations around the country, in cities including
San Francisco, Seattle, Austin and Chicago. And along the meadow's
perimeter, volunteers were coordinating rides to the upcoming antiwar march
in Washington on Oct. 26, with many people making plans to attend. Momentum
seemed to be building.

Yet Todd Gitlin, author of "The Sixties: Years of Hope and Days of Rage"
and former president of the '60s antiwar group Students for a Democratic
Society, fears the Oct. 26 protest will be "a gigantic ruination for the
antiwar movement."

(Can't supply a URL or the text for the remainder of this rancid article,
because I don't and won't pay for the premium edition of salon.com.)


Louis Proyect
www.marxmail.org


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