Maybe some of you PEN-L'ers can address this post from the Society of Professional Journalists List: >Am I just confusing the Communist Party of India with Communism as it is >actually practiced as a governmental system? It doesn't seem to make sense >that a journalist fighting against press censorship would be a communist. A >leftist or even socialist, yes, but not communist. I can't think of a >communist country today or in the past that had freedom of the press, much >less have that freedom written into their equivalent of a Constitution, like >the U.S. and other democracies. Am I just ignorant on this? > >Jason Decker > > ---------------------- > ... the left-wing journalist and commentator Nikhil Chakravartty... >was in the forefront of the campaign against press censorship... joined the >left movement in his youth and later joined >> the Communist Party of India. Though he ceased to be an active member, he >> retained his ties with old comrades...He campaigned vigourously for the >> freedom of the press and autonomy of the government-run electronic media ---------------------------------------- THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST James M. Cullen, Editor P.O. Box 150517, Austin, Texas 78715-0517 Phone: 512-447-0455 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://www.eden.com/~reporter ----------------------------------------
