Greetings Economists, On Sep 2, 2006, at 1:06 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:
Actually, speaking as somebody who spent a couple of hours with Doug, his wife Liza and their new baby Ivan on Friday night, I can attest to his deep emotional attachments not just to his immediate family but to the left in general. Doug, who I've known since the late 80s, easily could have gone to work on Wall Street and made a ton of money with his Yale degree and his mastery of finance. Instead, he plugs away for no money at all bringing left activists and scholars to the attention of the Pacifica audience in NYC. You don't do those things unless you have the kind of love of humanity that Che Guevara spoke about.
Doyle; That speaks well of Doug. Which does not contradict what I said either. In fact what I think is missing in the U.S. left at least is the sort of reconciliation you two had. A means of binding the left into a mass movement. Of absorbing homosexuality into the mass movement, and more important to me, disabled people (I reject the language of PWD or People with Disabilities). thanks, Doyle
