Re; Hitchens (and Marx/Negri) on genocide

[Chris Kromm]

Ok, did I miss something, or didn't Marx (and more recently, Hardt and
Negri) have an exactly similar formulation -- of the "civilizing influence
of capital" (or "Empire" in the latter's case)? Was that not also
"genocidal" in its implications? Please, this is hardly new -- Hitch is just
being a good Marxist, no?


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> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:42:28 -0500
> From: Mark Pavlick <mvp1 at igc.org>
> Subject: Hitchens on genocide
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> David Stannard's point remains: substitute "Jew" for "Native
> American/indigene" in Hitchens' prose, and you have a recognizably
> Nazi argument.  I don't remember "it happens to be the way history is
> made" having worked very well at Nuremberg.
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> >>Here it is. It's scanned from a .pdf in The Nation's web archive,
> >>so apologies for any uncorrected glitches.
> >>
> >>Doug
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> >>----
> >>But those who view the history of North America as a narrative of
> >>genocide and slavery are, it seems to me, hopelessly stuck on this
> >>reactionary position. They can think of the Western expansion of
> >>the United States only in terms of plague blankets, bootleg booze
> >>and dead buffalo, never in terms of the medicine chest, the wheel
> >>and the railway...
> >
> >A far cry indeed from the "glorification of genocide" we were led to
expect...
> >
> >
> >Brad DeLong
>