Re: FW: Bush knew..YQUE? What are we going to do about it?

["bon moun" <sherrynstan@xxxxxxx>]

> This is still arrant nonsense. We all have advance knowledge that
> somewhere in the next week someone is going to run a red light, hit
> another car, and someone will be killed. Big deal.

This is still an arrogant dismissal of legitimate questions that have been
homogenized into the category "conspiracy theory."  The analogy here isn't
even close.

>Then idiots can talk about how we had advanced knowledge
> (ignoring all the predictions that didn't come true.

I suppose I am one of the idiots, then.  It is glaringly apparent that
there was foreknowledge, but to ask questions about the evidence that there
was has now been declared anti-marxist heresy.

> Conspiracy theories are stupid -- but they also represent an almost
> deliberate effort to refute marxism, by their suggestion that it is not
> capitalist relations of production that we are struggling against but a
> few conspirators planning everything. Disgusting.

This is not an argument, it is invective and reduction.  You go on
struggling against "capitalist relations of production".  The folks we take
on in our day-to-day struggles our here in the hinterlands of North
Carolina are capitalists, for sure, but they have names and addresses, and
at the risk of being called stupid and an idiot, let me assure you, they
conspire.  Plenty.  I challenge you to go to the Raleigh Popular Assembly,
who are now neck deep in a struggle that grew out of the NCSU
administration's conspiracy to cover up a racial harrassment incident, and
ask them to make their next campaign against "capitalist relations of
production."

Now THAT'S gonna delegitimize those bad capitalists!

These lists are valuable for the information that sometimes sneaks into the
oh-so-erudite pontification and counter-pontification, but the weight of
this kind of academic arrogance is sometimes almost too much to bear.  To
disagree with your dismissal becomes tantamount to an attempt to refute
marxism, indeed!

Begging the forgiveness of the carriers of the true faith, but have you had
any conversations recently outside the academy or this list?


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