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Dear Nicola Nasser,
You article
(https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-endgame-of-the-us-islamic-state-strategy/)
on how ISIS sprang from the womb of American imperialism is really
fascinating:
"The IS was the illegitimate fetus born and nurtured inside the uterus
of the US – engineered political process based on a constitution
legalizing a federal system based in turn on sectarian and ethnic
sharing of power and wealth."
I think that your methodology could be the wellspring of a new way of
conducting historical research. It could persuade one given to leaps of
the imagination that Nazism sprang from the womb of British imperialism
since the onerous conditions of the Treaty of Versailles made economic
misery in Germany inevitable.
But Lloyd George and Clemenceau were not the original architects of the
Third Reich when you stop and think about it. The real blame for the
rise of the modern liberal bourgeois democracy was John Locke, the
naughty British philosopher whose musings on freedom and property surely
must have been intended to midwife the swastika.
Digging deeper into the tentacles of this vast conspiracy, you have to
put the blame on Plato and Hellenic imperialism that in many ways was
the forerunner of modern fascism. Without Plato, you can't have Locke.
Plato's Republic with its philosopher-kings--that's obviously the
incubator for "Mein Kampf".
But why stop there? Without Neanderthal man, there is no Greek
"civilization". They say that Alley-Oop, the headman of the Gubblik
tribe of Neanderthals in lower Slobovia, was bent on destroying the
planet way, way back in 200,000 BC. From what archaeologists can glean
from the relics, Alley-Oop was a bed-wetter whose mom used to beat him
over the head with the thigh-bone of a saber-tooth tiger. If there's any
lessons to be drawn from this abysmal tale, it is don't beat your
children with the thigh-bones of saber-tooth tigers.
With a warm embrace,
Louis Proyect
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