[Marxism] Re: Purging liberals from the academy

[Brian Shannon <brian_shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 9, 2006, at 12:16 PM, Austin, Andrew wrote:

> He wrote the essay in a white heat and he was concerned with  
> articulating the moral principle and to deconstruct the way in  
> which the attack was being sacralized by bourgeois propagandists by  
> claiming they all were "innocent victims."


What "moral principle" ?

They were as innocent as the overwhelming majority of workers,  
including the white collar middle class (a high percentage of these  
victims were aspiring children of blue-collar workers), who buy into  
the American ideal. Attacking the bourgeois propagandists for their  
evil misuse of the tragedy is not the same as attacking the victims  
because they, like everyone in imperialist countries except you and I  
(and I am not so sure about you), are morally corrupt. This is the  
liberal moralism of the religious and some anarchist left. It is of  
the same tripe as the Weathermen who went into high school classrooms  
and called the students to join them.

We are in a minority. Our task is to win over the conservative and  
thus by definition immoral majority. Does that justify killing them?  
This has nothing to do with the Left in general, let alone the  
sociological analysis of Marxism.

Brian Shannon


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