Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 14:00:21 -0400
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Chris re Reeves


Matt Davies: 
>But why not? Clinton's policies have hardly been friendly to Castro or
>Marcos. And I am not sure what you mean by "level playing field" here.
>Are you suggesting that the US left has some kind of political power or
>moral authority that is hard for other leftists to answer? 

No, just that the US, French and British left is more presumptuous. It is
presumptuous for people like Reeves to dispense advice in this fashion.
People in third world struggles seem to have more sense.

> In fact, the energy invested in
>vitriol against Reeves et al. might be better used in research and
>reflection -- and self criticism (Reeves at least was self-critical
>about the ab irato piece in his response). 

Reeves is a fool. I am disappointed that somebody as bright as Katha Pollit
does not see through his foolishness. I can understand how the trust fund
liberals running the Nation today can come up with all sorts of mistaken
ideas, but when a respected columnist can attach her name to the puerile
ultraleftism of Reeves, I get depressed.

Louis Proyect



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