Re: [Pen-l] The New Republik

[joel blau <jblau@xxxxxxxxx>]

Judis was a member of NAM from about 1973-78 and on the National 
Steering Committee in 1974-75. Influenced by Weinstein's The Decline of 
Socialism in America, he was more electorally oriented than other 
NAM'ers. He may have at one time been loosely affiliated with O'Connor 
(there was the California Left connection--he attended Berkeley and was 
a member after O'Connor of the Socialist Revolution journal collective). 
But he was never into Mao. By the late 1970s, as JD correctly notes, he 
drifted rightward, though now, he seems to be the only one on the New 
Republic introducing material read in left study groups of 40 years ago.

Joel Blau

Max Sawicky wrote:
> Judis was in the New American Movement, if memory serves, which was a
> few ticks more radical than the Harrington democratic socialists.
> Younger, at least.  I don't know if he was ever into Mao.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > I don't remember Judis being a known associate (as it were) of
> > O'Connor, though I could easily be wrong. He was a good friend of
> > James Weinstein and had a regular column in Weinstein's then-weekly
> > newspaper, IN THESE TIMES. When I read that paper, back in the 1970s,
> > one could see Judis slowly shifting to the right.
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >     
> > > On Apr 15, 2009, at 11:09 AM, mckenna193@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > >
> > >       
> > > > You mean this? (scroll down to see first page)
> > > > http://crs.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/3/2/63
> > > >         
> > > Yup. As I recall, it was some sort of collective or study group or
> > > something.
> > >
> > >       
> > > > And, when you call Jim O'Connor part of a gang. . .you mean what?
> > > >         
> > > A group of like-minded thinkers. I certainly don't mean to disparage
> > > O'Connor, who's a great man.
> > >
> > > Doug
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> > way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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