[Marxism] Marxism and Conspiracy

["Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Louis Proyect 
I am not sure what you mean by "the rightwing". The British Empire, 
despite having abolished slavery, tilted to the South because it was 
a primary source of cotton.

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CB: This is sort of avoiding the point here. What we call those trying to
get Britain in on the side of the South is not very important. How about
"proConfederacy" ? Do you think that pro-Confederacites are not
appropriately called rightwing ? Wasn't Marx leftwing ?

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 This Trent crisis was precipitated by a 
US Navy warship stopping a British ship in international waters to 
capture two Confederate ambassadors on board. The British began to 
speak of a military reprisal but when the US released the men, 
tensions were eased. The British might have used the incident as a 
provocation, but this is fairly routine in military-diplomatic 
affairs. Taking over for the British, the US stages such provocations 
all the time. 

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CB: Uhh , Lou, the point is Marx, whose conduct is a model for Marxism,
wrote on other topics besides abstract and general political economy. He
wrote about a specific event that involved a conspiracy to turn a specific
event into a basis for the Brits joining the South. Surely you see the
analogy to writing about the specifics of 9/11 today, and the very strong
implication that debating and arguing the specifics of 9/11 are not excluded
from what Marxists do.


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