[PEN-L:4464] Re: Davis & Menchu?

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Kruse wrote:
>Regarding:
>
>>Colin Robinson, director of Verso, says he told Davis that when you go for
>>the $250k advances, you've got to expect this sort of thing. Though Menchu
>>got similar treatment for a lot less than $250k. [Henwood]
>
>Don't you think the Menchu case is pretty different?  Fro example:
>vulnerable representative of group under genocidal seige; from a
>non-literary/oral background; etc.?  Just wondeing what others think of her
>case.

Well of course her case is different. The similarity is that if you get any
popular attention writing from the left, the ruling class will launch an
attack on your credibility. Normally it just ignores you.

Doug