Kuttner, tompaine.com, and Moyers are political comrades. How much more 'left' one is than the other is a trivial question. How left they all are compared to your ideal, or to what you think is defensible, is more to the point.
By the way, Paul Starr, TAP co-editor, is notably less liberal than Kuttner. mbs -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Devine, James Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 3:44 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [PEN-L:26772] RE: RE: tompaine.com also, is it true that Kuttner is pretending to be leftist by being associated with tompaine.com? or is he a tompaine.com-type leftist who is pretending to be more "moderate" in THE AMERICAN PROSPECT? or is he trying to build a coalition with the lefists? in any event, I don't think it's useful to attach a label to Kuttner and reject him. He says some interesting things, even though I don't like his focus on the wonderful[*] Democratic Party. The key is he a logical thinker who bases his conclusions on fact and doesn't leave important things (such as class relations) out? or does he provide an incomplete picture that can complement others' incomplete pictures to allow us to develop a more complete understanding and a guide for political practice? [*] irony intended. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
