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On 2011-01-12, at 9:55 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: ...if someone stabbed a > stranger on the street because Jesus commanded him to, we wouldn't connect > this act to Christianity. A complete stranger, no. The act would be incomprehensible. It would have no evident relationship to Christianity. But if the target were an abortion provider, we might well say that the delusions which triggered the murderous act were shaped by his fundamentalist Protestant or Catholic milieu, and that the target was not a random stranger on the street, an unfortunate victim of a deranged mind. This is what I understood the psychiatrist on CNN to be saying. Loughner deliberately targeted Giffords, the widely-publicized metaphorical target of white Republicans in Arizona, and there is enough his ramblings which evoke right-wing themes, to suggest that his evidently schizophrenic behaviour can't entirely be disassociated from the social and political climate which nurtured it. ________________________________________________ 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
