On 9/23/13 1:35 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > Nothing to do with that. One can attack de Blasio for being a Democrat, > a liberal, a conventional bourgeois politician, a political opportunist, > etc. All that is fair game. But attacking him for having been a > radical leftist? For having been an active supporter of the Nicaraguan > revolution? And then bragging about contributing to these attacks? WTF! >
Actually I did not attack de Blasio for coming to Nicaragua Solidarity meetings a quarter-century ago. I attacked him for joining the Israel lobby to pressure Corey Robin and company to include someone like Alan Dershowitz at a meeting on BDS. I also attacked him for backing Bruce Ratner's disgusting commercial exploitation of downtown Brooklyn. The simple truth is that going to Nicaragua in the 1980s was nothing like going to Moscow in the 1930s. My organization Tecnica recruited people who had no other interest except seeing some kind of experiment in fighting poverty. Nicaragua was seen as a mixed economy despite the best efforts of the NY Post to turn it into something else. Those New Yorkers who are registered Democrats will find nothing in that article to change their mind. My post was not addressed to them but to radicals. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
