Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 02:38:58 +0100 (MET)
From: rolf.martens-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se (Rolf Martens)
Subject: M-G: Nobleman mixes up left and right - again


Nobleman mixes up left and right - again
[Posted. 04.03.98 - 03.03 Jefferson Mean Time]

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The miserable phony"left" reactionary Louis "Nobleman" Proyect
doesn't deny himself. In a posting to M-G on 02.03, subject
"Images of American Radicalism", he wrote i.a.:

>"Images of American Radicalism" (Christopher Publishing, 
>Hanover, MA), by Paul Buhle and Edmund B. Sullivan, is an 
>astonishing new book. It consists of photos, drawings, old 
>magazines, leaflets, posters and buttons from the 1600s to the 
>modern era, with extensive informed commentary...

Well, though those authors obviously cannot distinguish between 
left radicalism and right such either - see below - this may 
well actually be a quite interesting book, so this "Nobleman" 
posting contains a little bit of value too. But he further says:

>Buhle's vision of the American left is like my own. It is 
>inclusive and nonsectarian. This means that the images
>are drawn from Socialist, anarchist, Communist, Trotskyist and 
>other sources.

Now every child knows - or should know - that "left" comes in 
two basic varieties: 1) genuine, and 2) phony - in fact under-
cover right, which as often as not is a very nasty, virulent 
right too. 

And the latter is the kind of "left" that this relatively pro-
lific writer, Louis Nobleman represents (today too, after he's
discarded that "N" when signing his name). This is shown by
the last he mentions of a number of pictuers from that book 
purportedly portraying instances or action of leftism - no
doubt a genuine such in some cases, only here the very opposite:

>--A photo of Dave Dellinger and my friend David McReynolds 
>from an anti-nuclear demo in 1980.

Thus, a demonstration *against* that most modern of energy
sources, which precisely the very worst reactionaries in the
world fanatically want to get rid of, for certain ultra-anti-
people motives, but which the peoples of the world very much 
need.

Such a demonstration, this - irrespective of perhaps some sin-
cerely well-intentioned motives that certain misled ignorant 
people who participated in it may have had - is not any left-
wing radicalism at all but in reality represents an ultra-right-
wing one.

Louis "Nobleman" Proyect in reality is just another small-time
tool of the Al Gore type bigwig bourgeois reactionaries of the
world.

On the political and social context of the question of nuclear
energy and the campaigns against this and other modern energy
sources, I refer readers to several earlier postings by me, for
instance in the "UNITE! Info" series.

Rolf M.

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