Re: The truth leaks out

[Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2003-06-04 14:25 -0400, you wrote:
> Devine, James wrote:
> > This isn't a matter of the truth "leaking
> > out," since it was open and
> > above-board, coming from a major player in the administration.
> > Rather,
> > given this context, it's an _expression_ of extreme arrogance: "we did
> > it
> > for the oil, but so what? we've got the power and resistance is
> > futile."
>
>
> Yes, you are right. This is an _expression_ of extreme
> arrogance.

It also brings to mind the apparently paradoxical _expression_ "right
wing marxists".
I do not mean liberal reformist marxists, which many of us might be
accused of being. I mean right wingers who analyse the class and other
forces as analytically as any marxist would wish, and use this to fight
for a scientific sort of repression and exploitation.

I noted the explanatory note the Guardian put at the bottom of the
article Louis Proyect quoted and thought I would look up Paul H Nitze, to
see what sort of foundation gave Wolfowitz his springboard. 

This produced the following link to a fascinatingly frank interview which
begins:

INTERVIEW WITH AMBASSADOR PAUL
H NITZE - 6/12/95
Q: 1945.
How seriously was it thought that there would be a real collapse of the
world economy and Communist take-overs in Italy, France...? Was this
seriously thought likely to happen?
A: It was very, very
seriously thought likely to happen, yes. I myself thought the danger was
high. That was a bad winter all together. It was cold and the crops were
bad, people were unhappy, and the Communists were making strenuous gains
here, there and the other place, particularly in Italy and in France, but
also in Germany. And I think the majority view was that the Communists
would soon be in command of - in Italy; that the - and that France would
be next; then Germany would be third; perhaps England, with a Socialist
government rather than a Communist government, would be fourth; and that
that was enough to kind of swing the balance that the United States might
be left isolated with a Communist Europe and United States a long
distance away, busy taking care of its own interests.

etc
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode-2/nitze1.html

Chris Burford