Re: [A-List] Fw: Michael Parenti Response

["viveka" <kaliyuga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Michael Parenti
> >To: Joan Malerich
> >Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 2:40 AM
> >Subject: Re: ***Important: US/Cuba/FBI/Posada/Cuban Five
> >
> >
> >Amy Goodman does not touch anything that is "too far" left, specifically
a
> >class analysis of class power, a critique that says US rulers are not
> >mistaken or confused but are pursuing a class agenda.
> >
> >When I said that about US foreign policy on her show---that it wasnt
> >confused or misled etc, but was very ruthlessly successful in most
> >instances---she registered facial disapproval. And later when the
interview
> >was posted, those remarks were missing.
> >
> >Nor does Amy touch anything that might directly reflect favorably on
> >existing communism, the former Yugoslavia, and maybe some other class
> >conflict subjects. Hence, I doubt that she wd touch the Cuban 5 or
anything
> >else that goes against the mad anticommunist passions of most of the left
> >(and of course the center and right).
> >
Parenti is absolutely right.  It's idiotic to keep repeating that the
policies of the Bush administration are "mistaken," any more than it's a
mistake that a shark attacks to survive.  That is the nature of the beast.
It may be true that sometimes a shark bites off more than he can chew ( as
may be the case in Iraq), but the endless hand wringing that goes on about
how horrible things are is, IMO, actually counterproductive, because it
suggests that all we need do is find a more compassionate shark and does not
present the idea of a true alternative to capitalism.  But I suppose Soros
would take away his funding if they did that.

M