Re: the socialist scholars conference

["michael a. lebowitz" <mlebowit@xxxxxx>]

Re:     

Rightwing faction purges Socialist Scholars Conference coordinator

by Louis Proyect
28 May 2004 17:30 UTC
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Eric Canepa, who is a long-time coordinator of the yearly
Socialist
Scholars Conference in NYC, has been fired. From what I understand, the
prime movers against him were Ian Williams, Bogdan Denitch and somebody
named Jeff Gold. Williams and Denitch were well-known supporters of the
war in the Balkans and Gold can be described as a Dissent magazine
"socialist".

SNIP

        I think it testifies to the pathetic nature of the US Left that it has functioned for so long under the fiction that Bogdan Denitch and 'Company' had anything to do with a Left. It's not only the Balkans-- think about last year's ideological offensive against Cuba. It's hard to feel too much sympathy for Stanley Aronowitz and friends, with their complaints about fleabites after the company they've been keeping.
        cheers,
        michael

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