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I thought it was established Marxist viewpoint that the "horrors of
capitalism drive the petite bourgeoisie into a frenzy. That's the explanation
of
his behavior, and as socialists, we seek to explain the cause of that
behavior in its social context. That's the lesson the American people were
asked
to draw by the act and the lesson that the left should be point to.
You can run around and denounce individual acts of terrorism or tea party
participants all you want, but revolutionary practice (which the Katheder
Marxists just have to call "praxis") would consist of drawing the lessons of
the event in terms of the social forces and psychological reaction to them
that caused it - all rooted in the intensification of capitalist
exploitation that drove this "terrorist" to his act.
The Appeal to Reason, the Chicago Socialist, the New York Call, the
Milwaukee Leader and the Seattle Call as well as the daily papers the socialist
party put out in Lead, South Dakota and Bellvue Illinios - would have run
this man's suicide note in full and with devastating analysis. That the same
cannot be anticipated from the modern "left" is appalling.
Wayne Collins
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