Re: No Subject

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

LouPaulsen wrote:

> "Liberals (I am not talking here about young people
> who are new to left politics and/or to the movement, I am talking about
> people and organizations whose nature is will defined), in so far as they
> are only liberals (and not representatives of the workers, the oppressed
> communities, etc.), represent a current of ruling class thought.  That's
> what makes them liberals.  Their allegiance is to the bourgeoisie and to the
> capitalist system."
>
> This was called "ultraleft nonsense" by somebody or other, but I think I get
> some credit for calling the turn here.

The only problem is that you have to be much more clever than you are to
prevent people like David Corn or Liza Featherstone from creating
mischief. Alas, the last thing that anybody can accuse ANSWER/IAC/WWP of
is surfeit of cleverness. For example, when you blithely refer to ANSWER
as independent from IAC and then house both organizations in the same
office, it creates an opening for a professional red-baiter from the
Nation Magazine to hang one of their slanders on. Of course, this is the
sort of problem you create for yourself when you are unaccountable. If
you were working with people who were not vetted from head to toe by WWP
leaders, they might have the gumption to tell you the truth, namely that
it is stupid to put two supposedly separate organizations in the same
office.

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Louis Proyect
www.marxmail.org




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