Re: [Marxism] Marxism and Conspiracy

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect wrote:
> 
> Tony Lawless:
> 
> >Like Roberts, I think we will probably never know what happened that
> >day. But there are enough peculiarities

The resemblances of conspiracism to creatiionism ("intelligent design")
continue to pile up. This emphasis on peculiarities is one of the major
hallmarks of analysis grounded on the premise that if we don't know
everything we know nothing. Of course there are peculiarities, as there
are peculiarities in all human activities and all social relations. And
the price of focusing on those peculiarities is the endless generation
of mysteries, mysteries which can only be solved by appeal to an
omnipotent and omniscient controlling intellect. The ways of god are
mysterious to man or the us government has "possible hidden motives" --
the mind set is identical in these two attitudes.

> >that we should not attack
> >those who want to investigate them. 

Yes we should because this infatuation with peculiarities is a major
barrier to collective political action.

> >Many of those who question the
> >official version of 9/11 agree with us that the event was used as a
> >pretext to launch new wars in the Middle East.

So. Why if they agree on this do they immediately insist on cluttering
_that_ question with (as Lou puts) with "stoopid" investigations of the
irrelevant.

> >They are not our
> >enemies; they are not wrong to question strongly the possible hidden
> >motives of the US government.

Pure mysticism. There is no way to understand policy if we clutter
understanding with balderdash about "hidden motives," hidden gods,
hidden powers.

Carrol

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