Re: [Marxism] Skewering "Fahrenheit 9/11"

[" Ian Pace" <ian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul H. Dillon>   Valentine should only wish that he had his finger on the
pulse of the
> American working class the way Moore does.  Moore's done more to
radicalize
> people in this country than any organization whose members or leaders know
> anything about Marx's critiques of German idealism.  It is very clear that
> he's reached an audience that nobody on the left has even come close to -
> like some highly disguised, but disciplined and focused Jerry Rubin, with
a
> camera and a keen sense for the political jugular (Bush like a deer in the
> headlights for 6 minutes, the incredible demonstrations at his
innauguration
> that noone I know had seen before, and lots more, especially one mother's
> (military family at that) trail from Flint, MI to the barricaded White
House
> to ask why her child had died -- what could be a clearer screaming
> indictment than that woman, as close as she can get to the center that
> directed her child to death,  hey Jerry Springer is the daily bread of the
> American working class) . . criticizing Moore from the Left is at best a
> boorish exercise in vanity and self-delusion.
>
I haven't seen Fahrenheit 9/11 yet (it opens over here soon). Nonetheless,
the accounts I've read suggest the following conclusion: any critique (like
that of Moore's) that can't posit some plausible alternative will itself be
an exercise in vanity and self-delusion, fodder for faux-progressives who
want their consciences cleared but actually have a vested interest in
nothing changing. But that depends whether you think that the election of
Kerry or Nader is in any sense better.

Ian



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