Marty Jezer wrote:
>
> Jeff wrote "Marty, I appreciate that old friendships die hard, but Todd read
> himself...."
>
> Jeff, I met Todd once, back in 1968. (Before he bought his house; he was
> living in an apartment). I was never active in SDS, though I did hold a
> membership card during the Carl Oglesby period. I would not call him a
> friend or a non-friend. But I feel solidarity with brother and sister
> activists -- with you too, even with our disagreements. It's not like we're
> in power fighting over the fine points of legislation that is going to
> affect how people live. Good people, whose basic premise is love of
> justice, are viewing the current world and national situation from many
> different angles. No one, in this era or any other, has a hold on the right
> analysis.
>
> Marty
>
> ____________________________________________
I certainly agree, Marty, that no one has or has ever had a
monopoly on the right analysis. What I insist upon, however, is
the existence of boundaries that define within the most general
terms, what is commonly referred to as "the movement." That the
movement's origins were as an "anti-war movement" and that it
continued to oppose the extension of US military hegemony either
through direct or covert intervention, albeit ineffectually, for
the most part, is something that has to be considered when
evaluating Gitlin's past and present relationship to the movement.
I confess I have a difficult time reading Gitlin, because frankly
I have lost whatever respect I had for his thinking processes.
That's the subjective. Objectively, his writings reveal him to be
a subtle apologist for US global policies over the past decade.
He has every right to his opinions and to insert them into every
nook and cranny of the mass media that he can. But to do it while
pretending to representing the movement of the Sixties is not
acceptable. But it certainly does assure the press will keep
calling. I don't know what name you have for it, but I, and many
others, see it as rank opportunism.
Jeff Blankfort
Marty Jezer wrote:
Jeff wrote "Marty, I appreciate that old friendships die hard, but
Todd read himself...."
Jeff, I met Todd once, back in 1968. (Before he bought his house;
he was living in an apartment). I was never active in SDS, though
I did hold a membership card during the Carl Oglesby period. I
would not call him a friend or a non-friend. But I feel solidarity
with brother and sister activists -- with you too, even with our
disagreements. It's not like we're in power fighting over the fine
points of legislation that is going to affect how people live.
Good people, whose basic premise is love of justice, are viewing
the current world and national situation from many different
angles. No one, in this era or any other, has a hold on the right
analysis.
Marty
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