> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2004/10/06 Wed AM 07:49:49 EST > To: Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: War Is Peace Louis: >"An important element of this is the susceptibility of many liberals and some >radicals to describe the Iraqi resistance as Islamo-fascists, etc. Some of the people >heaping such abuse were veterans of the Vietnam era radicalization, who apparently >forgot how the Vietnamese revolutionaries were described at the time. They were >linked to Joseph Stalin and at least in the pages of Dissent Magazine an antiwar >demonstration was interpreted as endorsement of the Gulags."
REPLY: Could not be sure if this is your, or someone else's characterisation. Whosever's. It is very simplistic indeed. The ML-ist movement that i know of is definitely not covered in this para. Tiny - maybe. But "linked to JVS". I do recall asking both here & on lbo - many months ago - about what might be the progressive path at the ballot box, vis-a-vis the Kerry vs Nader campaign. At that stage I simply got lectures from all (including you) basically saying that I had no idea of USA politics. Might be so. But certainly, the interview with Nader (posted by I think Dan S?), did reassure me a bit that the line that Alliance ML, finally came to (against internal opposition) that Nader represented the most "progressive" way to expose the war-mongers, was in essence right. And should I have needed any further reassurance: Yesterday's Vice-Presidential debate....... The very confident & smooth Sen Edwards struck exactly the "I am more war like than you" pose against VP Cheny, that Kerry & his party have been assiduously practising. I began to be especially nauseated as he praised & exhorted Israeli war-mogers for "exercisgin defence of democracy" in their current attacks. Nader's eloquent and not opportunist stance, seemed to me, a genuine relief from the posed Brand A Imperialist to Brand B Imperialist. Sorry, but things are as black and white as that. His statements on the 'ex-Nader-ites' who now castigate them were dignified & rather ominous: "They deserve the 4 years of Kerry that they ask for".. Hari > >
