IV God Damn the Repo Man

[Richard Fiero]

alice wellintown wrote:
>  . . .
>Perhaps the most important statement P ever made about the New Left is
>that the Students, in AMerica, failed to build a coalition with Labor.
>Now, as we know, SDS was rooted in Labor, but P is more focused on
>Meathead and Archie / Reagan/Nixon.
>  P concern back to V. and TSI and a major concern of GR) and his real
. . .
It is an error to name the "New Left" the opposition to a draft that 
killed about 60,000 of us and 2.5 to 3 million Southeast Asians, the 
mechanized application of chemical warfare materials to peasant lands 
and offspring in a war against a peasant army.  It is inappropriate 
to name the struggles against a completely wrong aggression, the 
fulfillment of civil rights struggles and dirty tricks against a new 
Cuban government this way.  Like Herbert Philbrick's "I Led Three 
Lives" depiction of Communist "cells," the actual new left was 
organized flat and did not have a hierarchical organization entirely 
vulnerable to disruption at the top.
The failure of coalition with Labor was entirely due to organized 
labor's short sightedness, racism and ageism. I note the current 
state of organized labor.

I doubt that P's views can be characterized in the way noted at the 
top.  In VL the word "fascist" occurs 11 times not including the 
three occurrences of "Fascist Toejam" which certainly tells me the 
little rebels in VL were surely off mark in characterizing any 
authority as fascist and that is on the mark as a failure.