[PEN-L:4578] RE: Marxist interpretations of Balkan war

[sawicky@xxxxxxxxxx (Max Sawicky)]

>
> Max, you have what is known as a divided
> consciousness. Part of you--the
> golf-playing suburbanite working for an inside-the-beltway

Actually it is not well known but Trotsky played golf too.  He is
credited with inventing the gadget people use to fish their balls
out of ponds.  Prior to that they were obliged to wade in and
soak their breeches.

> think-tank--tends to be pro-establishment, while the
> beard-wearing, sixties
> radical occupies the same body. (That might explain
> the size 36 waist.) So

What I wouldn't give for a 36 inch waist.

> nothing you write on such topics is pure 100%
> propaganda. That's what makes
> you so innaresting. Myself, I reside in that peculiar
> subculture which holds as a principle that citizens of
imperialist
> countries should oppose armed interventions by their ruling
class. This is
> what landed leaders of the SWP a 5 year prison term in 1942. I
have a
> nostalgia for that sort of stance that nothing will change, in
the same way that I love Bob Dylan's "Blonde on Blonde.">

I'm a sentimental guy myself.  In fact, my dad told me once he
attended the 1940 CLA convention.  After that he joined the Army
in Western Europe and, though in the engineer corps, ended up
being used as an interpreter, since his Yiddish was sufficiently
close to German.  He was among the first to see the camps.  I
never heard him express any misgivings about his role.  I think
he did the right thing myself.

mbs