Cooper weighs in

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Sep 20 05:39:07 PDT 2001


Todd Archer wrote:
>
> Luke said:
>
> > However,
> >the logic that "US imperialism is to blame for the acts of terrorism
> >visited upon it"

That sentence is incoherent. Imperialism is not a person but a huge complex of institutions and practices which constitute the mode of existence of capitalism. One does not commit acts of terrorism on a such a complex. One commits acts of terrorism on people. That is what is wrong with terrorism. Imperialist practices (probably in this case the utter crushing of all other modes of political activity in the mideast and much of south asia) generate terrorism. "Blame" is not a very useful category in this context.

Carrol



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