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Re: Some rhetorical questions (was: Re: A historical questionabout a certain type of violence in the national liberation struggle)
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- Subject: Re: Some rhetorical questions (was: Re: A historical questionabout a certain type of violence in the national liberation struggle)
- From: Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 11:29:05 -0400
Mark Lause wrote:
>Yeah, right. A drug dealer will tell you about all the money they're
brining into
>the neightborhood, too.
If so, they may have a point. But bringing money into the ghetto by itself
is not really a goal that socialists can identify with. Ending support for
Israel is another matter entirely.
> In fact, rhetoric aside, the goals of the suicide
>bombers, the WTC attackers, etc. are not laudable at all. Simply because
their
>goals do not jibe with US imperialism or that of the West in general does
not make
>them laudable, any more than the goals of the drug dealer make them laudable
>because they are not the goals of the police (this month).
Why the refusal to name these goals? Are you opposed to ending sanctions
against Iraq, etc.?
Louis Proyect
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- Thread context:
- Re: Some rhetorical questions (was: Re: A historical question about a certain type of violence in the national liberation struggle), (continued)
- Fine Art's Moment of Truth,
Gary Maclennan Tue 02 Oct 2001, 04:16 GMT
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