Louis, why don't you begin gathering signatures of those who agree with you on this matter. You caninclude me. > > At 05:30 PM 11/4/98 -0400, Victor Navasky wrote: > >Yeah, but... > > > >The only problem is Alex Cockburn is not our radical columnist. Maybe > >he once was (and he is certainly a brilliant polemicist), but these days > >he spends much of his Nation time attacking people on the left. What he > >is, is Alex, himself, unique. (In fact, it's Christopher who has been > >calling for Clinton's impeachment, and Patricia Williams and Katha P. > >who have been devoting most of their column space to social policy > >issues from rad perspectives.) Read up! > > I guess maybe the problem is that we have different concepts of what it > means to be radical, or else I was not clear enough to start off with. I am > a Marxist and have been so since 1967. The Nation has attracted many > independent Marxist readers in the past 20 years or so as the sectarian > Marxist left imploded. With all due respect to Patricia Williams and Katha > P., they are not really as radical as they might seem to you. Neither are > the bobsey twins, Cockburn and Hitchens for that matter. > > Although it had occurred to me to suggest some writers who would appeal to > people like myself, it subsequently seemed like a waste of time. In any > case, here goes: > > --Dan Georgakas > --Paul Buhle > --Alan Wald > --James Petras > --Tariq Ali > --George Lipsitz > --David Roediger > --Scott McLemee (much sharper than Alterman) > --Kevin Kelley > --Lucy Lippard > --Norman Finkelstein > > I suspect that if you took a survey of your readership, you would find many > more Marxists than you would have anticipated. You simply can not take us > for granted. The Democratic Party does this with blacks, Latinos, gays and > women. Marxism is a different sort of thing. It is a deeply rooted set of > ideas that takes enormous will-power to uphold in a society like this. It > is actually a tribute to the kind of magazine that the Nation was in the > past that so many of us were loyal to it. > > Louis Proyect > (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html) > > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
