I usually found that 'anti-americanism' that made no differentiation between American people and the American state was frequently (though not 100%) the stuff of right wing nationalism. I once really upset a british Tory with the comment, "When the US tells Europe to jump, it does something that looks like a jump. Thatcher's Britain, on the other hand, jumps as high as it can." That was in the late 1980's...Never dreamed of course that Blair would make a career of outjumping Thatcher...
Steve
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Though Oz, like Canada and Western Europe, is a free-rider on U.S.
> imperialism - you all enjoy the privileges of high incomes, while not
> getting your hands so dirty with the enforcement. Your state and
> ruling class are part of the imperial structure, too, and the sloppy
> equivalence of imperialism with the U.S. (or anti-imperialism with
> anti-Americanism) effaces that.
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> Doug
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