Re: [Marxism] LA TIMES bash-o-rama: 'Milk' star Sean Penn: Pal of anti-gay dictators?

[Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 14, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Walter Lippmann wrote:

> ...the United States government, works actively to encourage
> the fabrication through financing and political direction of groups
> opposed to the Cuban government and the social system which Cuba's
> government defends...

When I was growing up the forerunners of "McCarthyism" (now-forgotten  
figures like Westbrook Pegler, Martin Dies, Walter Winchell...) were  
screaming endlessly that "Leftist Subversion" was being financed by  
Moscow Gold and politically directed by the Kremlin and that therefore  
leftist political groups were "conspiracies" that were to be  
suppressed in defense of "democracy."  Their position was no less  
justified in relation to USA-1940 than Walter's is in relation to  
Cuba-2008.


Shane Mage

> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos

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