Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 15:54:02 -0400
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: This list is getting a bit weird


At 02:55 PM 5/2/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Louis Proyect wrote:
>
>>If you don't want to get implicated with the sort of nonsense that Reeves
>>peddles, then don't crosspost it. If you don't like the rough-and-tumble
>>world of the Internet, then stick with the clubby world of liberal
>>journalism where you don't have to answer to anybody except deep pocket
>>publishers, who have the nerve to tell Alex Cockburn to lay off Clinton.
>
>Lou, I must come to Katha's defense here - not, of course, that she needs
>me to speak for her. Katha is no respecter of the sacred cows of elite
>liberals - she bashes both Bill & Hillary Clinton with verve and frequency,
>and flames the establishment liberal feminists for their largely shameful
>performance on the end of welfare. And she's not afraid of rough and
>tumble. I only wish she hadn't hung up on NY Press when they asked her to
>write up a critique of the paper a few weeks ago.
>
>Doug

Of course you would. I wouldn't expect anything different. As far as I'm
concerned, however, there is a political connection between her
left-liberal politics and the boneheaded sectarian attack on the Zapatistas
from Reeves. It is the paternalism of the imperialist left. The Nation
Magazine liberalism and the absolutely disgusting attack on the EZLN from
French ultraleftists are rooted in the same political tendency, that is
middle-class moralism. The Zapatistas have betrayed the expectations of
Reeves and company by orienting to the SP and the CP instead of marginal
radical groups. Pollit sympathizes with Reeves because she doesn't
understand the class importance of such an alliance.

Louis Proyect



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