The most recent 20 comments posted to Electrolite by Tom:

Posted on entry Dark light. ::: April 14, 2003, 04:22 PM:

"But seriously ... I think this Trot-neocon connection is a red herring.

James Burnham, Max Shachtman, Irving Howe were all, I think, ex-Trots and (variously) influential a long time ago. David Horowitz says he was a 'Deutscherite' in his left-wing days, which means, roughly, that he was a Trot who was a bit soft on Stalinism. And that, as far as I know, is that."

Bit more than that. Irving Kristol was also a Trot at CCNY at the same time as Irving Howe, and Norman Podorhetz (sp?). Tom Sowell's an ex-Marxist, as is Marvin Olavsky. A lot of the best minds on the US right are ex-Marxists or are foreigners. Why can't they grow their own thinkers, godammit?

(They're welcome to Horowitz, though)

Schactman never became a conservative, but became part of the Dissent/Social Democrats USA cold wars hawks that were influential in the AFL-CIO.

Posted on entry Gene Healy ::: March 25, 2003, 02:28 PM:

For fans of modern dance, Mark Morris set a piece called "World Power" to Mark Twain's writings against the Spanish-American war. Great piece of work (both the dance and Twain's polemic)

cf. http://www.danceinsider.com/f2001/f315_3.html

Also see http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/sitting.html

and

http://www.boondocksnet.com/ai/twain/index.html

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