[Marxism] Who cares?

["Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Respuesta a:"Marxism Digest, Vol 32, Issue 75"
Enviado por:marxism-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Con fecha:30 Jun 2006, a las 18:52

Carrol Cox wrote:

> Let's try it this way.
> 
> Perhaps the largest and most profound conspiracy now underway is the
> destruction of the power of u.s. workers by the transfer or threatened
> transfer of jobs to third-world countries.
> 
> And who cares whether or not there was a meeting behind closed doors
> back in 1975 to conduct this conspiracy?
> 
> 
> Another huge conspiracy being carried out in the last 50 years is that
> to establish u.s. hegemony in the mideast, beginning with the
> overthrow of Mossadegh and continuing through various invasions of
> Lebanon and aid to Israel and presently manifested in the invasion of
> Iraq and possibly the invasion of Iran.
> 
> And who cares whether or not there was a meeting behind closed doors
> back in 1950 to conduct this conspiracy?
> 
> Conspiracy theories are simply ways of diverting workers from the
> serious outrages being conducted everyday.
> 

We shall never know whether the Reichstag was actually burnt away by 
a semi-alienated sympathizer of the German Communist Party or not.  
This is, in the end, a secondary issue.

But.

If there was some way to show that it _was not_, and to prove it 
convincingly, then it would have been an important stake on behalf of 
those who wanted to show the German working class the true nature of 
their own bourgeoisie.  Conspirations are politically useful when one 
can demonstrate that they are made on behalf of the class interests 
of our eneimies.

In this sense, demonstrating that such events as the waterfall of 
political murder that fell on the USA with John Kennedy, Martin 
Luther King, Malcolm X, Robert Kennedy (am I missing anyone?) were 
functional to the interests of a fraction of the American bourgeoisie 
(same runs for the WTC case and the astonishing immobility of the 
defensive umbrella, Pentagon "missile/plane", etc) is not completely 
pointless.

I must tell the US American members of this list that many, very 
many, people outside the USA can't buy the theories of the 
"individual madman" as easily as the US American public does.  Nor do 
many of those people fully believe that Mr. Bin-Laden, who is so 
timely in his on-screen epiphanies, has lost every link with US 
American intelligence.

I agree with Mike F. that this "conspiracy thesis" is not, positively 
not, the easiest explanation, and that it somewhat operates like 
"hatred against the usurier (Jew)" instead of "hatred against the 
capitalist mode of production".  But if there were any serious links 
between concrete group interests and those strange political crimes, 
which are crimes and as such must be denounced, then they may serve 
our own goals by showing _what kind of a beast is the US American 
working class forced to deal with_.

On this, I tend to agree (once again) with Mark Lause:  "You don't 
have to think that JFK or King or the Panthers were going to 
overthrow capitalism or something to see them as victims of a 
conspiracy."

And I would add:  but if you can _demonstrate_ that there was a 
conspiracy, where members of the bourgeois state were deeply 
involved, then you have a first rate propaganda weapon in your hands.

The role of CIA agents in South America during the 60s and 70s 
(fostering East-West alineation and/or terrorism against the 
construction of massive patriotic and socialist fronts) is quite 
known.  Why should they stop at the Southern boundaries of the USA?

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Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
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