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"I strongly object to excusing Norman Finkelstein in this fashion. By allowing his name to be listed as a columnist, he legitimizes a neo-Nazi website." You keep calling them "columnists". The implication of this is that he is actually collaborating with Unz, like a staffer. If what Finkelstein told me is true, then that is not the case and would imply that it is likely not the case for the others. Unz is unilaterally deciding what he wants to republish. If they aren't actively collaborating with him then it isn't even clear that Unz would remove their names or materials if asked. My own writings have appeared in random corners of the internet, including places I don't want them. I have no control over that. And it doesn't make me a "columnist". I'd point out -- so have Marx's, Chomsky's, Lenin's, etc. It is an issue that right wing groups are trying to sanitize their messages by mixing them with left rhetoric, but it is not nearly as big of an issue as you're implying for the primary reason that these groups and individuals are mostly irrelevant. LaRouche and his weirdos have been around for decades. They are an insignificant cult and I would pay them the same attention I pay to the Hare Krishnas and Scientology. On the other hand, falsely implying the existence of Nazi collaboration among left groups over trivial points of contact -- none of which appear to involve actually endorsing or defending fascist ideology, with the possible exception of Johnstone -- sounds like a serious error of judgment. And when ARR does it, it is straightforwardly done in bad faith. Amith R. Gupta _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
