A Modest Proposal for The Empire

Thomas Seay entheogens at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 25 09:39:58 PST 2001


--- Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
> >
> >On the left most broadly conceived, for over a
> century the ruling
> >commonplace has always been that Marx was right up
> to 25 years ago, but
> >now things have changed, and the capitalism Marx
> knew is utterly
> >transformed ....
>
> Presto, capitalism seems to have changed again and
> reverted to classic form
> in the last three and a half months. Post 9/11, we
> now have in-your-face
> imperialism that is indistinguishable, IMO, from the
> 19th-century original.
> Now that we're living under the global dispensation
> of Uncle Sam as No More
> Mr. Nice Guy, it's reasonable to assume that Marx's
> insights into the
> overtly brutal system that he witnessed will have
> new relevance.
>
> Carl
>
>
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