Re: Midnight Notes, "Respect Your Enemies"

["Jose G. Perez" <jgperez@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I read it, but it is very hard for me to appreciate the point of posting the
URL here.

It is not an argument or presentation within any sort of Marxsit framework,
indeed, it seems to lack ANY coherent framework AT ALL, despite a somewhat
supercillious tone.

Typical of this overall goofiness is the last paragraph:

*  *  *

"We leave you with a historical example in support of our thesis. The most
effective way the threat of nuclear terror was answered in the 1950s was not
the antinuclear war movement, but the black revolution in the U.S. and the
anti-colonial movement around the planet. Black people in the U.S. and
colonized people in the rest of the world made it clear that B-52 bombers
and their hydrogen bombs were not liberating them, and they refused to be
delayed by them. They declared that their civil liberation was a
precondition for the "Desire of such things as are necessary for commodious
living; and a Hope by their Industry to obtain them" that could lead to
Peace. Indeed, it has been the thwarting of this Desire and this Hope by the
imposition of a neoliberal economic order that has been the source of most
of the War of the last two decades."

This is just gobbledygood, insofar as I can understand it.

What sense does it make to *counterpose* the civil rights struggle, or the
anticolonial revolution, on the one hand, and protests against the U.S.
nuclear buildup, on the other?

And what sort of hystorical myopia afflcits an outfit that can seriously
talk about "the most effective way the threat of nuclear terror was answered
in the 1950s" without even *mentioning* the Soviet Union? If the Soviets had
not already detonated an atom bomb (in mid-1949) the U.S. would *certainly*
have used the bomb when the Korean War broke out in the middle of 1950.

José

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Fleming" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 11:37 AM
Subject: Midnight Notes, "Respect Your Enemies"


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