--- Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Ballard wrote: > > > > Bush - dolt or ordinary criminal? > > > > Of course, he's both! > > > > Think dialectically, > > Mike B) > > > > If Ellen Meiksins Wood's explanation of U.S. > imperialism at the present > time is correct, then a dialectical explanation > actually holds here: > there is an internal relation between the > criminality and the stupidity > of the u.s. government. Both are imposed by current > world relations of > capital, and neither dependent (primarily) on the > particular _dramatis > personae_ of a given moment. (Different personnel > will give different > policies, but the differences will be wiggles on a > chart, not a new > course.) > > Come to think of it, her explanation can be > metaphorically represented > by Pericles' argument in defense of Athenian > imperialism: Athens was > riding a tiger and daren't get off. :-) > > Carrol
***************** Thank-you Carrol! Is Bush riding a paper tiger? We shall see as the body bags continue to be brought back for burial and the precious oil pipelines get blown to smithereens. Then, we'll elect one of the selected Democrats and the show will go on, but it will be an easier spectacle to observe. Regards from down-under, Mike B) ===== ***************************************************************** "--why do you slack your fighting-fury now? It's hard for me, strong as I am, single-handed to breach the wall and cut a path to the ships--come, shoulder-to-shoulder! The more we've got, the better the work will go!" One of Sarpedon's speeches in THE ILIAD--The Trojans storm the rampart http://profiles.yahoo.com/swillsqueal __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com
