How Should the Left Respond to a U.S. War Against Iraq?

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On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 at 12:06pm Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> I've admired a lot of Ellen Willis' writing in the past
> but this is awful (and in no small part the result of
> her Zionism). Right after 9/11, all she could talk about
> was the fundamentalist repression of desire and the Twin
> Towers locked in their mutual phallic sadomasochistic
> dance (I never understood the S/m bit - did 1 WTC
> dominate 2? did they switch? did they jointly conspire
> to top 7?),

maybe she knows as much about s/m as she does about political economy?


> because she either doesn't know anything about political
> economy, or like her lifemate's attitude towards
> empirical evidence, thinks it doesn't really matter
> much. So instead there's this silly case by case
> analysis of U.S. intervention without any larger
> theoretical context. Ick.
>
> Doug
>

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