>>> Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> 01/14/00 04:15PM >>>
The Kennedy assassination
might have prevented nuclear war (I think jfk would have been more
apt to use nukes in vietnam than lbj), but no one would have mounted
a conspiracy for that purpose.
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CB: This is wrong. A main reason the rightwing assassinated Kennedy was that he had just completed a nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviets. Another was that he was about to deescalate in Viet Nam.
Notions that all bourgeois politicians are the same or that the gradations among them from left to right are the exact opposite of what is commonly thought ( like Johnson was to the left of Kennedy) are totally confusing for a current left that is already very mixed up. Such an approach sounds more "radical", but is species of what Lenin cricized famously.
CB