[Marxism] Left Hook Latest Release Online (Radical Youth Journal Based in U.S.)

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Left Hook


www.lefthook.org


Last Release: Sunday, August 01, 2004

Five Questions with Noam Chomsky

| Merlin Chowkwanyun |

*Merlin Chowkwanyun: *One scholar and activist whom you've cited (and
whom I wish more people knew about and read) is Seymour Melman, who more
than two decades ago articulated the concept of a "permanent war
economy." What was Melman describing, and how does it limit or shape a
chief executive's foreign policy?

*Prof. Noam Chomsky: *The term "permanent war economy" is attributed to
Charles Wilson, CEO of GE, who warned at the end of World War II that
the US must not return to a civilian economy, but must keep to a
"permanent war economy" of the kind that was so successful during the
war: a semi-command economy, run mostly by corporate executives, geared
to military production. Among other very important contributions, Melman
has written extensively on the harmful effects of gearing much of the
economy to military production rather than to civilian needs. What he
describes is correct and important, but there are other dimensions to be
considered.

- (Read full) <http://lefthook.org/Reviews/ChowkwanyunChomsky080104.html>

The Petrodraft (III of III)

| Y. Kleftis |

The possibility of conscription offends American moral sensibilities on
the left and right. Americans almost invariably define "freedom" in
terms of liberal individualism^1 , which accounts for some of their
resistance to conscription and shows the limitations of their
understanding of freedom and its necessities. The opposite of liberal
individualism is often characterized as slavery, an assertion based
myopically on America's own moral predicaments which often gives free
pass to the supposed "individualism" of U.S. banks and corporations. The
boogieman of "collectivism" permits the violent rejection of universal
legal and moral norms, so that American freedom rejects social order and
good based in law and right and substitutes chaotic adventures in
profit, such as those characterizing the conquest of north America.

- (Read full) <http://lefthook.org/History/Kleftis080104.html>

Democracy At Last

| Jared McBride |

Rubber bullets
(whizzing past)
Thank God, Democracy I found at last

Tear gas
(burning my eyes)
Democracy, were you just hiding in disguise?

- (Read full) <http://lefthook.org/Culture/McBride080104.html>

Rock Musicians Organize Against Injustice: A Quick Chat with Tom Morello
and Serj Tankian

| Richard Moreno |

On a sweltering hot summer's day in Southern California, the Axis of
Justice non-profit political organization initiated its very first
activist meeting Sunday afternoon on the 25th of July at North Hollywood
Park. Despite the blistering heat, a group of roughly 50 people from all
ages and backgrounds clustered together under the trees' shade while
Co-Director of the Axis of Justice Jake Sexton announced the afternoon's
purpose. Within minutes, Tom Morello, former Rage Against the Machine
guitarist turned Audio Slave guitar extraordinaire, and Serj Tankian,
System of the Down's fiery lead vocalist, arrived with cases of Axis of
Justice gear and materials. Soon after, the birth of the first Axis of
Justice chapter was proclaimed.

- (Read full) <http://lefthook.org/Reviews/MorenoAOJ080104.html>

Updated Highlights from our Youth Discussion List:


John Kerry

http://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/lefthook/2004-07/msg00089.html

http://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/lefthook/2004-07/msg00093.html

http://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/lefthook/2004-07/msg00147.html


The Nader Campaign

http://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/lefthook/2004-07/msg00064.html

http://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/lefthook/2004-07/msg00065.html

http://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/lefthook/2004-07/msg00067.html


The American Civil War

http://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/lefthook/2004-07/msg00092.html

http://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/lefthook/2004-07/msg00095.html

http://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/lefthook/2004-07/msg00096.html

http://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/lefthook/2004-07/msg00098.html





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