Anti-War Movements

Chris Burford cburford at gn.apc.org
Wed Oct 17 00:20:53 PDT 2001


At 16/10/01 22:34 -0500, Carrol wrote:


>the material reality is that the
>U.S. is in the process of killing hundreds directly and dooming 10s of
>thousands to death, none of whom are in the least connected, directly or
>indirectly, with the 9/11 attacks.

but on 16 Oct 2001 18:06:50 -0500 From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>


>There is absolutely nothing, nothing whatever, that we can do now that
>will have any effect on U.S. government actions within the next 12
>months or so. This is axiomatic and other assumptions can merely be
>ignorned as childishness.

Have a missed a more positive statement somewhere or is this really advice to remain in self-satisfied, arrogant and bitter isolation while tens of thousand are doomed to death? Is that the height of a penetrating marxist analysis?

Chris Burford

London



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