I want us to be careful here. I was going to comment to Karl before, but
resisted the temptation. While I found myself in agreement with much that
Karl said, I wondered if I could communicate with anyone whom I know in
such terms.
I think that it is important for us to develop the ability to communicate,
to learn to speak the language of non-leftists, even if it is to
communicate leftist thoughts.
I don't know what the long term outcome will be, but over and above the
loss of many innocent lives, the short term result will be salvaging
Bush's deteriorating political career, along with the worst of the Repugs.
On another level, so many interesting things are happening in the economy,
that I suspect that we would have a great deal to learn.
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 08:50:32PM -0700, Michael Pugliese wrote:
> I'm sorry Karl, I'm sure you are a nice fellow but the below could have
> generated by a marxist version of that postmodernist jargon generator that
> you've probably seen. Clumps of marxese with little empirical backbone.
> Conjecture about ruling class policy shifts/fractures/motives which I
> wouldn't necessarily disagree with but, esp. to those you are trying to
> reach that are not ideological leftists, would this be the way you conduct
> agit-prop in your mass work?
> Michael Pugliese
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karl Carlile" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 8:01 PM
> Subject: [PEN-L:17138] Bush caused Manhattan destruction
>
>
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> > ----------------
> > The recent use of hijacked aircraft in an attack on US buildings involving
> the
> > destruction of two of the tallest buildings in the world and damage to the
> > Pentagon has had a serious political impact on the global situation.
> > The fact that such a coordinated operation, despite the loss of thousands
> of
> > lives, has had such a serious ongoing political impact is a reflection of
> the
> > weakness of American imperialism. The fact that the actions of a
> relatively
> > small number of terrorists is followed by a political change on the
> present
> > ongoing scale is evidence of the serious crisis facing global capitalism.
> It is
> > evidence too of the increasing obsolescence of capitalism and the
> existence of
> > objective conditions, already overripe, for the establishment of communist
> > relations of production. It is not insignificant that these events and
> their
> > serious political impact has been taking place in the context of growing
> global
> > capitalist economic slowdown.
> > The destruction wrought by the terrorist operation, notwithstanding its
> scale,
> > is not a cause, by itself, for the significant political changes that are
> > following from it. The American bourgeoisie is exploiting this terrorist
> act to
> > wilfully generate an atmosphere and mood that provides the pretext for the
> > present kind of political response by US imperialism. It is clear that the
> > socio-political difficulties facing the US bourgeoisie are on such a scale
> that
> > it requires the kind of political conditions it is currently seeking to
> > construct in the aftermath of this recent terrorist act. American
> imperialism,
> > through the medium of its state apparatii and its mass media, has been
> > relentlessly whipping up hysteria both domestically and globally to
> provide
> > itself with the pretext to create changing political conditions that
> better suit
> > its class interests. Such changed circumstances gives the US bourgeoisie
> the
> > pretext for domestically broadening and intensifying its already
> aggressive
> > imperialist actions --actions that have led to this loss of life in
> Manhattan
> > and Washington. The fact that it must whip up such hysteria to escalate
> its
> > domestic and international aggressiveness is irrefutable evidence of its
> fear
> > of the American and indeed world working class. Because of its class
> weakness it
> > is increasingly unable to freely engage in increasingly aggressively
> > imperialist action without first having to generate conditions (through
> the
> > whipping up of mass hysteria etc.) that fool the US working class into
> passively
> > and actively supporting its oppressive policies. However as its present
> > aggressiveness is broadened and intensified the consciousness of layers of
> the
> > US working class will increasingly penetrate the fog of bourgeois
> mystification
> > to see the naked predatory nature of US capitalism.
> > It is the duty of communists to courageously highlight the real source of
> the
> > terrorist act that has resulted in so much loss of the lives of American
> > workers. It is the duty of communists to urge the working class to resist
> and
> > challenge the predatory actions of US imperialism against the masses of
> the
> > world. This means that communists, where possible must, organise against
> the
> > vast propaganda machinery of the capitalist state that is being used to
> whip up
> > hysteria and jingoism. It must, where possible, organise rallies and other
> forms
> > of popular protest against Washington's increasing aggressiveness against
> the
> > US and world working class.
> > The source of the recent terrorist operation that has led to the loss of
> life of
> > many American workers is none other than US imperialism. The increasing
> > intensification of American imperialist aggression on the global stage
> against
> > the world working masses is the cause of this act of terrorism.
> Washington's
> > bombing of Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq and Serbia is the cause of this recent
> > terrorist act on US soil and will be the cause of further terrorist acts.
> > American imperialism's invasion of Serbia and active support for the
> current
> > savage attempt by the Israeli state to crush the Palestinian people is the
> > source of this terrorism. By treating people like pigs they will act like
> pigs.
> > Consequently the American working class must place the blame for this
> great loss
> > of working class life on the real perpetrators of this terrorist
> ct --the
> > world's greatest terrorist, the US bourgeoisie. It must accordingly
> proceed to
> > rid itself of this class by destroying capitalism and replacing it with
> > communist society. In this way it will have created the conditions that
> will
> > make terrorism an impossibility. American imperialism pursues policies
> that
> > lead to the death and injury of hundreds of thousands of workers both
> inside and
> > outside the US. Today instead of joining hands with its bourgeoisie US
> workers
> > must join hands with the workers of the world who have suffered too at
> the
> > hands of US imperialism. It is a capitalist class whose time is over and
> that
> > can no longer play any progressive role in the development of society. Its
> hands
> > are covered in blood --it is a natural born killer. It must be eliminated
> by
> > American workers class joining hands with European, Arab and Asian workers
> > against US imperialism in the interests of humanity. By the world working
> class
> > jointly acting against US imperialism it is uniting against all
> terrorism --the
> > only real way of eliminating terrorism.
> >
> > Regards
> > Karl Carlile
> > To read or download our global communist programme click the following:
> > http://homepage.eircom.net/~beprepared/FIST%20Programme.htm
> >
>
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
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