Nathan may not like his new choice of locale. The "hard partisan Democrat arena" has more sympathy to the WWP than DSA does. I regularly post over at an online discussion board called Democratic Underground, which certainly qualifies as one of those "hard partisan Democrat arenas". When the whole thing about Lerner sparked up last month, the folks on DU were some of the first to say: "Who gives a shit?! This is about fighting the war, right?"
As for Nathan's charging into the "hard partisan Democrat arena", I am reminded of the words of Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock: "Don't worry. You'll see him tumbling back soon enough." E-mail me offline sometime. I wanted to talk to you about a couple of things. Comradely; Martin Hunter Gray wrote: > > Several weeks ago, in connection with the discussion of out-going Illinois > governor Ryan's commutation of all of his state's death row sentences, I > chanced to quote a thoughtful and knowledgeable comment in that context by > Lou Paulsen of Chicago. Michael Pugliese immediately identified Paulsen as > a WW member -- something about which Paulsen has always been quite open -- > and huffed and puffed about various WW positions, real or alleged, none of > which involved the discussion on Ryan and the death penalty in general. > When I took issue with this, Nathan Newman jumped in with a distorted attack > on me -- among other things, there announcing his conversion to the > Democratic Party. Here are two of his posts -- which I find outrageous. > > [snip] > > Here are Nathan Newman's revealing -- and grossly distorting -- posts of > the other day. > > [snip] > > "FWD from ASDnet: post by Nathan Newman > Jan 13, 2003 14:46 PST > > Melvin, > > Hunter went after Michael and DSA, all while defending the WWP. If > that can't provoke a response, I'm not sure what should. > > As Hunter has said, I haven't been posting much because I find DSA far > too passive in taking on both the Right and the sectarian left. I am > basically gravitating to the hard partisan Democrat arena, partly because > they actually have the zest for battle and organizing that the democratic > left seems to have lost. > > -- Nathan _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
