To: jbe who wrote (86028 ) 8/22/2000 2:12:48 AM From: Neocon Respond to Well, the fellows we are talking about did not think that things like the Columbia strike were jokes. Maybe they were wrong, I will not debate the particular incident, I wasn't there. The worry was, in any case, less with the rise of neo- communist movements, as with the phenomenon of anti- anti- communism, which many intellectuals were prone to. Now, maybe you do not think it was consequential enough to want to counter, so that must remain a point of disagreement, but by the time it gained prominence on a national ticket, through MacGovern (who, incidentally, had been a strong supporter of Henry Wallace), the people we are discussing were somewhat alarmed. So maybe they were the more agitated wing of the liberal anti- communists, I don't know. Since, in the end, I thought their alarm was correct, I suppose I thought that anyone who did not share it was particularly anti- communist, even if not truly pro- communist.
