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Louis Proyect wrote: > > > Nation Magazine, February 2, 2009 > Seeking Obama's Center > Comment > By Victor Navasky > > As I listened to Obama's inaugural address, although I harbored no > illusions about the difficult task ahead, I felt that I was > swimming in a sea of happiness, as I heard him gently but firmly > declare the country's liberation from the past (rejecting as > "false" the Bush administration's notion that national security is > incompatible with constitutional liberty)[...] > For some years now I too have thought that "constitutional liberty" and "national security" are incompatible. Does that make me a Bushie? I think it's wrong to conflate national security (as defined by the requirements of a nation state) with safety and constitutional liberty (as defined and administered by the capitalist class) with freedom. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --B. Franklin -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/-Marxism--Victor-Navasky%27s-foolish-illusions-from-about-a-year-ago-tp27248555p27253781.html Sent from the Marxism mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
