Louis said: > I guess you aren't aware that the British were responsible originally > for dividing people by religion in the colonies. You might as well ask > the tobacco industry to spearhead an anti-smoking campaign.
Of course I'm aware of that. And what use would it have been to point that out in a discussion immediately prior to partition? The tobacco thing suggests that you don't seem to have taken on board the dialectics _within_ the capital class as a whole. In this neck of the woods, tobacco companies _do_ spearhead the anti-smoking campaign --- for some years now they have been required by law to carry anti-smoking messages on every cigarette pack, occupying at least 25% of the surface area. More radical suggestions are circulating: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9483627%255E1702,00.html. By the same measure, the global capitalist class should not be allowed to shirk their responsibilities to the Iraqi people. Grant.
