Re: [A-List] Full Spectrum Entropy: Wheels off...

["bon moun" <sherrynstan@xxxxxxx>]

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From: "Mark Jones" <markjones011@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 8:16 AM
Subject: RE: [A-List] Full Spectrum Entropy: Wheels off...


> I've been gritting my teeth and saying for a while now that it ain't
gonna
> happen. I have the uneasy feeling that just saying it out loud is
tempting
> fate--not only betraying ANSWER and NION who need popular anxiety to keep
> the campaign going, and but in some weird yogic way it'll trigger the
cruise
> missiles and before the words are out of my mouth I'll be proven wrong.
But
> fwiw, I don't think Bush is up for it any more; yes the wheels have come
off
> so what we need to do know is to reorient ourselves to a different world
> than the one we are mostly still expecting: a world, in short, where
Saddam
> will be still in power, but Bush may not be and Perle and Rumsefeld the
> other Dark Forces definitely will be out.
>
> Mark

My own perversely optimistic sense of all this is that the Bushfeld Junta
has done wonders for delegitimizing the US state just in advance of a deep
and  inexorable economic crisis.  There is hope and anxiety attached to
this broad prognostication... the left is less disorganized than it used to
be, but still way behind the power curve.  The whacko right, however, has
been gaining ground for some time now, and they are armed to the teeth.
ANSWER and NIOC, et al, are important... rather, the popular forces they
represent... for the organizing.  I got linked with at least three more
potentially important allies in DC, as I'm sure everyone did.

An organization's sense of its own power is intangible, but critical, in
actualy changing the relations of power.

[Also working on a short piece - first in a series - that shows the
potential for support for socialism within the US military...  It's time we
quit ignoring those workers in uniforms.]

Cheers.