From: Wallach Alan___ <axwall-AT-facstaff.wm.edu>
Date:         3 May 98 23:34:21 
Subject: AUT: On Being More Moral than Thou


>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

In other words 1) everyone except you is middle class and all views
you disagree with are a type of "moralism"; 2) an alliance with a
corrupt and discredted CP and an even more corrupt and discredited SP
nonetheless represents something of "class importance," which
benighted liberals and their ultra-leftist counterparts will never
comprehend.   Well come to think of it, perhaps it does represent
something of class importance--the usual betrayal of the class in
question.   I also note that by touting this "alliance" Proyect
simply corroborates the analysis put forward by Reeve an DeNeuve.

What most astounds me is the way Proyect makes his own rules on these
matters--as if no one else knows anything about such topics as
class, history, and, oh yes, "moralism."  Seems to me that the most
moralizing voice I hear on this list is that of the boringly
predictable and inadvertantly self-betraying Louis Proyect.

Alan

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