[PEN-L:5126] Re: Re: Re: random thoughts on the slaughter

[Dennis R Redmond <dredmond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

> Wrong reasons: removing any existing or potential obstacles for capitalism
> all over the world.

But capitalism civilizes, right? It's too simple to abstract global
accumulation into a simple case of butchery. I myself am troubled by the
fact that when a few thousand white Europeans get slaughtered, suddenly
it's a world-historic crisis. Millions of Third Worlders routinely die
from IMF structural adjustment policies, as we know, but even we radicals
don't react in the same way, now do we? Somehow the barbarism is rooted
much, much deeper than NATO airstrikes or Serbian counter-insurgency
campaigns. The Left has somehow got to address these deeper issues on a
meaningful level, or we'll always be attacking tiny pieces of a system
which just keeps on growing and growing all around us.

-- Dennis