[Marxism] We're gonna be united, u-nite-ed

["Jeff Rubard" <jeffrubard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:02:52 -0000
> From: "Len Walsingham" <lha.walsingham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: [Marxism] RE: Pure neoliberal model???
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> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:44:04 -0500
> From: "Mark Lause" <MLause@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: [Marxism] Army War College publishes critique of Iraq
>       war,    'war on terrorism'
> To: "'Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition'"
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> I am astonished at Eli's moralizing, which blinds him to the primary
> issue and focuses him so clearly on secondary--nay, tertiary--matters.
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> In this case, I am doing a doubletake over his statement that the
> position of the War College report "is no help to those of us for whom
> the 'war on terror' and in particular the invasion of Afghanistan was as
> wrong and outrageous as the invasion of Iraq, and just as much a part of
> the U.S. drive to dominate the world and roll back the rights of working
> people."
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> For those who've been under the guns and the bombs, what's important is
> whether or not the assault continues.  Those who are not religious
> fanatics are likely unconcerned about the mixed motives and
> contradictory concerns of those who might want to stop attacking them.
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> Look up "ruling class, split among" in the index of your Marxism 101
> textbook.

Well, I don't think so -- the critique of the record seems to me to be a
perfectly acceptable "economistic" pursuit, as Mr. Record's report is
offered as having a certain position in informational space which products
of the US government do not always occupy (especially in this "post-GPO"
era, when such studies are no more than intimated for the majority of US
residents).  Is he saying bad things?  I do think so, since the goal is
actually not to foster a split among the ruling class but to enshrine
"good strategy" as the *summum bonum*; and frankly I'm not really planning
on getting with the Army War College (not physically or mentally located
in upstate New York, but instead in a location I know rather better,
midstate Pennsylvania) anytime soon.  I don't expect I or anyone in
proximity was or will be invited to, but you apparently do.

Jeff Rubard



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