Re: [Marxism] Two gains US scored recently in Iraq wat

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Friedman wrote:
>
> "Runs the elections in their interests": that's a general truth. But, you
> make this tantamount to hand-picking a candidate. That's bullshit. This is
> not how the ruling class "rules."

The way the ruling class _does_ rule is endlessly complicated, and
changes constantly as well, depending on innumerable factors, including
the relative strength  at a given time of the capitalist and working
classes. "Know your enemy" -- and knowledge of the ruling class is
frustrated by simplistic notions of how it rules.

Alexander Cockburn has an excellent article on the election on the
following website:

http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/133052/index.php

Here is one delightful paragraph from it:

The truly bad news is the 9/11 nuts have relocated to Stolen Election.
My inbox is awash with their ravings. People who have spent the last
three years sending me screeds establishing to their own satisfaction
that George Bush personally ordered the attacks on the towers and that
Dick Cheney vectored the planes in are now pummeling me with data on the
time people spent on line waiting to vote in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and
how the Diebold machines are all jimmied. As usual, the conspiracy nuts
think that plans of inconceivable complexity worked at 100 per cent
efficiency, that Murphy's law was once again in suspense, and that
10,000 co-conspirators are all going to keep their mouths shut.

Carrol


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