I really don't like Stew Albert's "ex-CPers" fixation. There are other kinds of
ex-Cpers, too, as he well knows. I'm one, and there are plenty more who, like me,
dropped their affiliation, but not their humanism, progressivism, militancy.
William Mandel
Jeffrey Blankfort wrote:
> Stew Albert writes:
>
> > Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 21:06:01 EDT
> Yeah, Stew, you're right about Lovestone, and I'm not about defending
> the CP which beginning with Roosevelt, hasn't found a Democrat it
> couldn't support, but I am not sure that it was ex-CPers to started
> National Review. Bill Buckley? There were a number of folks live
> Irving Brown and Tom Donohue, from Social Democrats USA, who did their
> Cold War work within the AFL-CIA. But a big difference is that what was
> then the left, or progressives, in general, wanted no part of them.
>
> Here you have Hayden, for example, who not only supported Israel's
> bloody unprovoked invasion of Lebanon, which left 20,000 Lebanese and
> Palestinians dead and brought tens of thousands of Israelis in the
> streets in protest, but he went with wife Jane to Beirut and sat with
> Israeli gunners as they shelled Beirut during a 76-day siege and then
> refused to meet with Israeli anti-war activists when they returned to
> Israel. If you think this is acceptable behavior and Hayden should be
> excused for this breach of, shall we say good taste, I don't. For me,
> having been in Beirut and having seen what the Israelis did there, I
> would no more have anything to do with him then I would with someone who
> had accompanied the Nazis as they rounded up Jews. Arab lives,
> apparently, do not have the same value in American society, across
> virtually the entire breadth of the political spectrum.
>
> Now Hayden is playing Jesse Jackson's game, trying to keep wavering
> left-libs from straying into Nader's camp. That was his role on the
> streets, and that his son Troy was hit by a rubber bullet, is something
> his conscience, if he has one, will have to live with. Or why he did not
> go on the floor of the convention, as did some delegates in 68, to
> protest the police actions in the streets.
>
> Jeff Blankfort
>
> From: StewA@AOL.COM
> > Subject: Re: [sixties-l] Re: sixties-l-Robert Scheer sells out
> >
> > You should consider former CP leader Jay Lovestone who became a major player
> > in the CIA -AFL-CIO cold war alliance for world capitalist hegemony. And all
> > the ex-CPers who helped start the super influential right wing National
> > Review. And then there were all those ex-CPers who just became apolitical
> > businesmen. (I know a few.) Hayden is a saint next to them.
> > I think the difference in our current politics is not over issues, since I
> > agree with you on the ones that you mention (I think)- but your sort of
> > biblical tendency to say if you are bad on a few issues, then that is so
> > significant that nothing else counts. And I tend to say ok you're terrible
> > here and there (and that sucks) but you're still ok on 90% so I'm not putting
> > you in Horowitz land. And I would even vote for you as mayor of LA. Actually
> > you think Hayden and the others live in a place worse than Horowitz land. You
> > know, there was a time when the CP called liberals and social dems - Social
> > Fascists. It turned out to be a big mistake.
> > Stew Albert
> > http://hometown.aol.com/stewa/stew.html
> >
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