How does trumpeting a 911 conspiracy theory help unite the US and world working classes and to raise class consciousness? How does it empower minorities, women, gays and lesbians, or the resistance to US imperialism in the US and around the world? How does it help to roll back the PATRIOT act, to stop NSA spying, or to get US troops out of Iraq? How does it help end and indeed reverse global warming and other environmental destruction? what progressive effect does it have?
On 6/13/06, Paul Zarembka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Louis Proyect wrote: > ... It diverts energy and time from > more profitable research based on established facts. It is a fact that US > imperialism maintains military bases in oil-producing Moslem countries run > by dictatorships. It is a fact that secular revolutionary thought and > activism went into a steep decline after the collapse of the Soviet Union. > It is a fact that political Islam embraces terrorism. But political U.S. does not? The U.S. did not fire bomb/nuke virtually every Japanese city except Kyoto? Try closer to home and wonder about the t-shirt I saw at native American reservations south of Buffalo: "We've fought terrorism for 500 years" (approx. recall). Paul Z. *************************************************************** THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF 9-11-2001, P.Zarembka, ed, Elsevier, 2006 http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka/volume23.htm ***************************************************************
-- Jim Devine / "Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis" -- Robert Heilbroner.
