Progressive Empire (NATO: A Global KKK?)

[Peter van Heusden]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:57:21AM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Carrol Cox wrote:
> 
> >Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>  What about the NATO of Powell and Rice?
> >
> >O Shit -- and even if i had the use of both hands
> >this banality would not be worth a fuller response.
> 
> I don't know whether to feel annoyed or relieved.
> 
> Look, the point is that simple racialized analyses of imperialism 
> don't work anymore. Two of the top administrators of the Empire are 
> now black. Neither is a marginal figure, and one was the military 
> leader of the Gulf War. More broadly, the senior staff of the IMF and 
> World Bank are extremely integrated - as are many trading floors. 
> Moreso than lots of left organizations, in fact.
> 
> Liberals were completely disarmed by the Thomas nomination - they 
> just didn't know how to deal with a black reactionary. Evidently some 
> Marxists don't know how to deal with the incorporation of nonwhites 
> into the senior posts of the New World Order either.

There was a brief discussion on whether capital was white on aut-op-sy
a couple of months ago - we didn't really go into any depth. It is, 
however, an interesting question, particularly if you see whitness not
as some 'biological reality' but rather as a strategically deployed
classification politically manufactured and deployed to integrate
layers of the dominated classes into capital. While I'm critical of
much of the magazine Race Traitor's politics in detail, I think
> 
> Doug

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