Re: [Marxism] Re: Lippmann

[David McDonald <dbmcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Diener:
>
> Frankly, bin Ladin has the right global perspective, though the wrong
> ideological goal.  There is even something to be said for his tactics.
> While communists talked, bin Ladin's elements managed to attack the very
> center of  American brutality: the Pentagon.  It was a great propaganda
> victory for the Islamic insurgents,  and has made them heros in the Third
> World.

Response:

Wrong. The generalized form of tactic is individual (OK, 19; certainly not
mass) terror to create destabilization through mass fear (not to mention the
mass murder of innocents employed in the concrete tactic); subsidiarily, to
show through this strike that imperialism is vulnerable and only infidels
like the Saudi princlings would ally with them). It has nothing whatsoever
to do with mobilizing the masses of the world's poor, oppressed, and
exploited to achieve their own liberation through struggle.

Since and as an immediate consequence of 9/11 two countries have been
invaded and destroyed, over 100,000 civilians murdered, and there is a
clique with a tear on trying to eviscerate the US Constitution and destroy
for common people in the US the main social gains of the entire twentieth
century, a clique which is so far being given a pretty free ride by the
people who own the USA (George Soros to the contrary).

Now, the people of the world are bouncing back, the emperor has no clothes,
no doubt we will have another shot at solving this before it all turns to
crap, but, please, there is NOTHING to be said for bin Laden's tactics.

David McDonald



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