Arguments for ground war - forget it

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>>>Max, I'm curious.  Do you think the Afghan civilians who died because of
>>>>our bombardment deservere any sort of consideration?  Should the US
>>>>compensate their relatives?  Do we owe them anything?
>>>
>>>A massive reconstruction and development program. Anything less 
>>>would be criminal neglect.
>>
>>A pie in the sky!
>
>So you don't argue for it anyway? You argue for socialist 
>revolution, which is even more pie in the sky.
>
>Doug

A socialist revolution is a political project of self-emancipation of 
the proletariat -- whether you succeed or fail, it's undeniably your 
own project.  In contrast, to argue for "a massive reconstruction and 
development program," as things stand now, is to pray for the ruling 
class's sense of mercy, generosity, noblesse oblige, civilizing 
mission, or something like that.
-- 
Yoshie

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