Re: [Marxism] Purging liberals from the academy

["Sayan Bhattacharyya" <ok.president+marxmail@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/9/06, Austin, Andrew <austina@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is comparing bureaucrats that go amorally about the business of imperialism to 
> the bureaucrats that perpetrated genocide in the same robotic manner really 
> that harsh.  Andrew

Everyone who died in the World Trade Center was a "bureaucrat"?
Janitors and waiters who died also formed part of a "technocratic
corps"?

This is what Churchill wrote:

"There is simply no argument to be made that the Pentagon personnel
killed on September 11 fill that bill. The building and those inside
comprised military targets, pure and simple. As to those in the World
Trade Center . . .

"Well, really. Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were
civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a
technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial
empire – the "mighty engine of profit" to which the military dimension
of U.S. policy has always been enslaved – and they did so both
willingly and knowingly.  [...] If there was a better, more effective,
or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their
participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile
sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing
about it."

What Churchill wrote above is grotesque.

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