David Horowitz is the latest ex-Trot to dance to the Right’s tune, says alexander cockburn |
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In America, awareness never sleeps and has been on particularly active duty this October, designated as Breast Cancer Awareness Month (proclamation of President George Bush); as Domestic Violence Awareness Month (proclamation of President George Bush); as Energy Awareness Month (proclamation of President George Bush and the Environmental Protection Agency); and - we speak here specifically of October 22-29 - Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week (proclamation of David Horowitz, a fat and hairy ex-Trot living in Los Angeles).
Cautionary interpolation: Horowitz was certainly fat the last time I clapped eyes on him and he sports a beard that waxes and wanes in outreach depending on which Google image you look at. And yes, Christopher Hitchens is also a fat and hairy ex-Trot, is also a known associate of the man Horowitz, and also thunders against Islamo- |
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Horowitz has proclaimed that October is ‘Islamo-Fascism awareness month’
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Fascism. Nonetheless we speak here of Horowitz.
When I first saw Horowitz, he was neither fat nor hairy nor apparently aware of Islamo-Fascism. This was in the late 1960s in London and he was working for the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. About a decade later I saw him again, this time in Washington DC presiding over a well-publicised 'Second Thoughts' conference, announcing his departure from the Left. He spoke harshly of his parents' decision to make him watch uplifting features about the Soviet Union and to forbid any Doris Day movies, a common blunder in child-brainwashing techniques among the comrades at that time.
Since then, like other Trotskyist vets, such as the above-mentioned Hitchens, Horowitz has thrown his energies into crusading for the American Right, fuelled in his efforts by copious annual disbursements from the richer denizens of that well populated sector.
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