Rob, you are absolutely right. American lefties are further from
our mainstream than lefties in Australia, Ireland, or Britain. This
makes it all the worse when Ted Grant tendencies or DSA types come
floating our way trying to apply their understandings to what is
admittedly a bad
G'day Tony,
I'm no Catholic, but it seems to me even the Pope has realised - rather
late in the piece - that his vicious anti-leftism (especially in Latin
America) and uncritical pro-Reaganism has produced a cruel and godless
Mammon every bit as inimical to him as that fanciful red dawn.
An example in point, my favorite list (as Rob knows) is currently
discussing whether Liberation Theology still exists! Many on this
list seem to think that LT has almost totally evaporated off the face of
the planet. If they were living in Texas as I do, they would quickly
see that the
