A Modest Proposal for The Empire

[Peter K.]

>attacked. The ambivalent response of oppressed peoples around
the world
>marks how many of them grasp the contradiction: that the attack
does not
>directly harm the rulers but only the ruled on the one hand; on
the
>other hand the oppressed seemingly have no other way to strike
back
>except through such indirect attacks. And moreover, those who
organized
>the attacks, while enemies U.S. imperialism, are not really
friends of
>the oppressed but candidates for becoming the new oppressors.
>
>None of these contradictions or complexities justify the ravings
of the
>defenders of imperialism (represented on this list by Brad), but
neither
>should we deny that the contradictions exist.
>
>Carrol

Do I detect a split on the ultra-left? :0

By denigrating ObL and Al Queda - who just used Empire's violence
against itself in what would have been a brilliant jujitsu move
had it not
been completely suicidal for ObL, Al Queda, and their friends in
the Taliban
(and possibly their sponsors in Pakistan) -
you are giving aid and comfort to the United States and hence
Capital,
which can only spell more misery for the oppressed of the world.

And how do you know the oppressed of the world have been
ambivalent
in their responses?! Did you consult one of those oppressed
polls?

Peter, against Empire and ultra-leftism