Re: In defence of Krugman and against Alexander Cockburn: choice of targets

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> How terrible, Dees makes soo much money, how dare he.
> People who work for good causesa re supposed to be
> POOR. You wanna guess how much Tigar makes? Or
> Kunstler made? I bet it wasa  lot more than Dees.

I wouldn't mind Dees getting big bucks if he was doing something useful.
Spending $5 million to disseminate questionnaires on racial attitudes
seems dubious at best.

> Hey, Louis, I'm a corporate lawyer at a  big law firm;
> I make my living in part defending tobacco companies,
> and I make a lot of money too -- not as much as Dees,
> but I'm getting there, if I stay here, I will someday.
> I must be a real scumbag.

Do you think you can spare $5000? My house in upstate NY needs a new roof.

> And the SPLC is puting its money into propaganda, and
> worse, ut's not even Marxist propaganda. If =It were
> reprinting the marxist classics in overpriced
> editions, like Pathfinder Books, everything would be
> fine.

In fact, $5 million in Marxist propaganda would be well-spent. I'd start
with basic information about the real problem of racism in the USA in
which "hate groups" play a relatively minor role. I think that
*institutional racism* is a much more serious problem. Clinton, despite
his being regarded as some kind of Maileresque white negro in some
circles, did far more harm than any Klansman by eliminating ADC.

> Whatta crick.

Isn't that something you get in your neck?


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