Leigh:
I'd like to point out that the conspiracies that I'd like to think most
folks on this list pay attention to aren't chemtrails or UFOs, but look
more like the following. To lump all conspiracy theories of government
into one big stew of alleged disinformational propaganda is a red herring,
and a total diversion from the task at hand... and the task at hand is
getting to the root of the problem in the here and now.
Like weapons smuggling. Who do you suppose received these?
I think we should be clearer about what kind of conspiracies we are talking
about. They all involve cabals within the government that carry out some
monstrous attack that are made to appear as if they were perpetrated by
sworn enemies of the country. The assassination of JFK, Pearl Harbor, 9/11,
the Battleship Maine all fall into this category. In addition, you get
conspiracy theories about "secret teams" that are operating without the
knowledge and or approval of elected officials. That's where the Christic
Institute and Oliver North come into play. Generally speaking, all this
involves a non-Marxist understanding of how history takes place. Instead of
class forces in conflict, you have a variant on the "great man" theory of
history. If any major Marxist thinker of the past 150 years ever got
involved in this kind of thing, I am not aware of that. I am rather fond of
Michael Parenti's writings, but don't consider him a major Marxist
theoretician. His obsession with the JFK assassination always took him down
a notch in my estimation.
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