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(Reading this, I wonder if the author is channeling the spirit of my dear friend, the late Mark Jones.) It is heartening to see that Bérubé has put his Jesuitical training from Regis High School to good use in terms of the 1600 year war against the heresy of the Manicheans. Saint Ephraem wrote a good tract against this tendency (Manichean Tendency of the Gnostic Faction of the One Holy Apostolic Church Party) in the Fourth Century, Anno Domini. I myself was involved in a gambling ring run out of Bukidnon, Mindanao by Father Stephen Duffy which spent half its time running liberation theology study groups to get peasants primed for the New People’s Army, and half the time fighting against these Gnostic deviations which kept cropping up. As far as Proyect’s comments, his end ones are the most spot on. When I read Lenin, Molotov, or any of those Manichean leftists that are probably read by those dirty Manichean neostalinist sectarian WWP thugs, those old Bolsheviks have a phrase for dilettantes like Bérubé – “tea drinkers”. The question the Bérubé’s of the world ask – why was the WWP initially leading the US anti-war movement – is not one that someone actually on the ground organizing even has to ask. The WWP lead the anti-war protests because they are a national group which is well-organized, and instead of dithering, did all of the hard work and effort that went into organizing those events. The cruise missile “left” was probably busy organizing anti-Nader groups or something. I see (when giving the book a cursory lookthrough at Barnes and Noble) that Bérubé thanked Leo Casey in the book’s opening. That set the tone of the book for me right there, I can’t think of anyone more repellent of that stripe, except perhaps Michael Pugliese. Actually, if anything would make me think of 9/11 as some positive anti-imperialist action, it would be the picture of Leo Casey’s car buried under the dust and debris of the World Trade Center, like a rain falling on the just and unjust alike ( http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2001/2001-September/017462.html ) ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
