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Paul Street's avatar

The fact that this series elicits little response compared to my main thing, which is of of coursse the ongoing revolutioary communist criticism of the American System and its politcal culture, was anticipated and reflects the simple fact that alot of folks who read me are caught up in or more of the 17 affllictions I'm going through here. Just a cold fact. I may add two more to make the series even more unpopular: neo-Narodniskism and left antiquarianism, the bizarre obsession I see online with anectotal and baseball card collector-like details about stuff past radical thinkers may or may not have said in obscure forgotten manusrcripts and letters to eachother....quite the time waste. Some fading Marxist historian has apparently recetly put out of a 1400-page manuscript on ten years in the life of the pioneer US Trotskyist James Cannon. The book is available for $443. Not sure how much better that is than jumping down the JFK assassination rabbit hole for a decade or so.

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Paul, in today’s Chris Hedges Subsrack column he discusses his participation in an Rage Against the Machine anti war protest that will be held 2/19 in Washington DC, where a number of right wing figures such as Ron Paul will particate. Even the “evil” Max Blumenthal will be there. He supports left-right coalitions on issues they both agree. What do you think? Is this a betrayal of his left, progressive values?

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