[Marxism] Re: Anybody but Kerry

[John Enyang <x03002f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Professor Chomsky,

Yes, were I in favour of electing Bush then it would be correct to
conclude that I supported his policies. However, no evidence whatsoever
exist to say that I am "in favour of electing" either Kerry or Bush.

You on the other hand do in fact support and are willing to elect Kerry.
Which means that you support or are willing to see his policies enacted,
including muscular internationalism, militarisation of space, increases
in military spending -- around which there is a ruling class consensus.
You cannot at the same time support Kerry and oppose the ruling class
bi-partisan consensus around the key issues of the day. From your own
logic, it follows from your support for Kerry, and your willingness to see
him elected, that you support his policies -- not least the continued
occupation of Iraq, increases in the size of the US military, and the DP
doctrines of muscular internationalism.

John Enyang

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Noam Chomsky wrote:

> If you are in favor of electing Bush, then it follows that you are willing
> to see his policies enacted, including those I indicated.  There is no
> red-baiting in pointing that out.  It is just simple logic.  If you are not
> in favor of electing Bush, then you will adopt the "safe states"
> strategy.  I'm afraid it is as simple as that.
>
> The rest I'm afraid is just fantasy.  It has nothing to do with anything I
> have written or said, or believe.
>
>
>
> At 05:13 PM 10/2/2004 +0900, you wrote:
> >Dear Professor Chomsky,
> >
> >I refer to your email attached below. Your charge that I support the
> >"destruction of the US social security system" and "the militarisation of
> >space" etc, bizarre in the extreme. Your assertion is not only unfounded;
> >it is eerily reminiscent of spurious charges made by many an establishment
> >figure, red-baiting liberals among them, who sought to discredit you
> >personally, slanderously asserting, for instance, that your efforts to
> >place events in Cambodia in an historical and political context tarred you
> >as a supporter or at least an apologist for "genocide in Cambodia" etc.
> >
> >Now on the contrary, it is self--proclaimed liberal figures such as
> >yourself who, in falling in line behind the war candidate offered by one
> >wing of the Washington establishment, eviscerate domestic and
> >international opposition to the ruling class consensus by giving credence
> >to such meaningless differences as exist between "muscular
> >internationalism" vs "preemptive war".
> >
> >I note also that in keeping with your dishonest support for the muscular
> >international wing of the U.S. ruling class (a grouping that surely does
> >support and implement the policies you so dishonestly charged me, and by
> >extension a large part of the anti-imperialist left with supporting), you
> >saw more merit in biliously slandering me than in addressing the comments
> >made by fellow muscular internationalist Barack Obama to the Chicago
> >Tribune, threatening war against Iran, Pakistan should his party gain
> >power -- as appended in my original email to you below.
> >
> >What a decline for someone of your stature and integrity.
> >
> >With disgust,
> >John Enyang
> >
> >On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Noam Chomsky wrote:
> >
> > > Interested to hear that you favor destroying Social Security, OSHA, the
> > > limited medical care system, the last vestiges of progressive taxation,
> > > etc., and that you are in favor of radical escalation of militarization of
> > > space and eliciting the predicted responses from Russia, China, etc., 
> > > which
> > > are driving the world towards likely nuclear war, etc.
> > >
> > > I'm not.
> > >
> > > At 11:06 AM 9/27/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> > >
> > > >Dear Professor Chomsky,
> > > >
> > > >I write to register my disgust and disappointment with your public
> > > >support for the war candidate offered up by the liberal (sic) wing of the
> > > >US establishment -- transparent despite the fact that you've disguised it
> > > >behind the "safe  states" strategy.
> > > >
> > > >John Enyang


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