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The great hoop-lah about this 70th anniversary is certainly rank hypocrisy, particularly for a country that's embraced the fundamental assumptions of totalitarian government and behavior. As materialists, we should see events as innately contradictory and not pretend that we can parse out these contradictions and look at an event as something as simplistic and straightforward. But it's a kind of instant postmodernist response, isn't it? We just saw that with the American Revolution. So, now, with D-Day. It denies none of those contradictions to see the Normandy Landing or the Allied defeat of the Axis as having a dynamic that certainly fueled the civil rights movement and the promise of peace that contributed to keeping the Cold War from getting really crazy and ultimately led to a revolt against its assumptions in the West. ML ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
