Misc. related to Chomsky thread and Agaisnt the Day---for Joseph Tracy

[Mark Kohut]

Serendipitously, I just read this today in the first essay in Geo Packer's 
collection "Interesting Times"...Packer of The New Yorker....

About Randolph Bourne and the argument that broke out between liberals
over WW1....his venue The New Republic refused his essays becuase 
they thought the war was an international extension of Progressive reform...

Bourne wrote elsewhere: "WIlling war means willing all the evils that are 
organically 

bound up with it"...."A good many people still seem to believe in a peculiar 
kind of
democratic and antiseptic war.'....'the myriad hurts the they [pacifists] knew 
war 

would do to the promise of democracy at home."...Intellectuals like John Dewey, 
Bourne said, were too rational to unserstand war. THEN, later....

"on airships of idealism, they [P's They] unleashed a barrage of violence that 
fell
on American towns as well as the trenches in France."....................

Packer: The war whipped up a frenzy of intolerance all over the country that 
destroyed
what was left of the Progressive era, mocked Wilson's vision of a just new world 
order,
and produced a backlash against reform lasting for the next decade. 

AIRSHIPS OF IDEALISM...!!!...think TRP read this Bourne??