Re: Clancy Sigal attacks Camejo

["Walter Lippmann" <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Leon Trotsky's comment that if we put a minus
everywhere the enemy puts a plus, it would
make every sectarian into a great strategist is
most always good to keep in mind. And yet...

I must say that the fact that the New York Times
feels a need to get someone like the ex-leftist
Clancy Sigal to do a number on Peter Camejo like
this is surely a sign that Peter is getting more of
a bounce than the powers that be would like. Sigal
also writes for the Los Angeles Times, so I suppose
we'll be seeing more of this stuff in print here, too.

"Going Away" was a good book, as I recall it as it
described the crisis into which many CP members
were thrown by the Khruschev revelations and the
Soviet suppression of the Hungarian revolt.


Walter


----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Proyect" <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 6:11 AM
Subject: Clancy Sigal attacks Camejo


 (The Camejo campaign is beginning to get the same kind of
negative attention that the Nader campaign for president got
in 2000, which is a sign that it is making headway. Clancy
Sigal is the author of "Going Away", a 'roman a clef'
revolving around his discussions with fellow CP'ers in the
1950s, who have become disillusioned by the suppression of
the revolt in Hungary, the Khrushchev revelations, etc. He
was a black-listed screenwriter who eventually made his way
to England, where he hooked up with Doris Lessing, another
CP'er and author. In her "Golden Notebook", Sigal (Saul
Green) is an important character. He comes across as a total
scumbag. In a June 17, 1989 Guardian piece, written on the
occasion of his return to the USA from England, Sigal
admits, "In the Sixties, I changed from being John Reed, the
US radical journalist, to Colonel Blimp." Yeah, I guess so.)



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