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The Gimlet Eye: Poland and the Left

by D. Keith Mano

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Town Hall: liberalism is making a technical rally here. Sort of like the way corpses fill with gas. Radical pitchmen mill around outside, hawking literature printed on two-pound, instantly biodegradable paper. This could be stock footage from 1971. There are, I think, more left-wing sects now and fewer left-wing people: American ultra-liberalism has begun to break up like the transmission on a motel TV. Syndical-Trotskyists are overruling their Socialist Labor competition. The Spartacist Neo-Luddite has snubbed two Anarcho-Menshevik women. One idiot, whose party line must’ve been laid down by a road grader, tells us that we must “Stop this CIA-Vatican-labor front in Poland.”

Madness and misdirection, some panic: Poland, for the Left, is becoming another Hitler-Stalin Pact.

DK

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D. Keith Mano

D. Keith Mano was a TV screenwriter and author of ten books, including Take 5, recipient of the 1987 Literary Lion award, and columnist at National Review magazine for 17 years.

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