Re: [Marxism] Bolton: Israel 'will attack Iran' before new US president in office, especially if it's Obama

["gary.maclennan@xxxxxxxxx" <gary.maclennan@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Fred Wrote:



>
> At any rate, I think it is becoming necessary to assume that the worst is
> coming until the possibility has been clearly pushed back.
>
> This could be an attempt to blackmail almost everybody in the world into
> doing whatever Washington wants re Iran and Iraq in order to head off an
> attack. But the possibility that this insanity will happen, which arises
> out
> of the problems of the imperialist system and not the possibly clouded
> mental state of one man or a few people, has to be our starting point.
>
My comment:

This reminds me of Heidegger's comment on whether we could know that reality
existed, that the real scandal is that we are still asking such questions.
We have been round this one for over two years now and I have gone from both
sides of the argument ('yes there will be war' to 'No there won't') several
times. Truly it is a scandalous indictment of the world we live in and
especially the nature of the New World Order that was brought into place by
the collapse of the Soviets that we are still debating the possibility of
such a catastrophe.

But it is more than that.  It points directly to the role of war within
capitalism.  It is not an additional luxury but a deeply essential part.
Just as the medieval prince could find no other way to increase his surplus
but thru conquest, just so the contemproary capitalist can find no way to
reverse the decline in the rate of profit but through bloody war.

Let us hope that this will truly be a war too far and that the people will
rise up and we will have done with all the butchers.

regards

Gary
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