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1/20/2003 05:15:00 PM | Timothy Iraq protests, A.N.S.W.E.R, Stalinists, Greens, and the Politics of 'Neutrality' OK, I wanted to open up a discussion of what is acceptable in your mind for groups to sponsor and/or condone. First, for those of you who went down the anti-war protests in D.C. how did you feel that A.N.S.W.E.R. was behind it and how do you respond to accusations that by doing this you attended a march organized by Stalinist and Milosevic apologists and in effect supported them? I know, no one from Dartmouth (I assume!) supports Stalinism, but you wouldn't have attended a rally led by the KKK no matter what the cause, right? See Eric Alterman on ANSWER (also Neal Pollock, funny satire.). Now, I have always been wary of claims that those who equate support with communist principles are no different than Nazis, but A.N.S.W.E.R. is one of those organizations that seems to me should clearly be condemned. What do you all see as the difference? It's so sad that it seems that only a group like A.N.S.W.E.R. has the people power* on the left to organize something like this. Meanwhile, "Bush may have rebuked Lott for his praise of Strom Thurmond, but the President recently revived a practice of paying homage to an even greater champion of the Confederacy". If Republicans winking to neo-confederationists is wrong (and it is), why is OK to associate with A.N.S.W.E.R.? By the way, I want to say I'm glad the Greens are the group who organized the protest: they are so much better and reasonable of a 'radical' group than we could hope for. They are some of the most decent individuals I know, and I'm not challenging anyone's integrity in this post, but await their intellectual justification. (Though I must mention the Greens did help Bush get elected, are niave in their vision of purity and electoral politics, depended on the support of people whose principles didn't fit clearly with them--- ie. they were a smaller version of a catch-all party for the left that was 'cool' that year, and have many young students who join because it seems different, cool (and energizing), which the democrats need to turn around!) *Update: Karsten is right (above) that it is organizational skills, not people power that ANSWER has. I put the related post on Israel in sponsorship of activities in the post below... perma link |
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