Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
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> > ...Of course these questions can only be answered in fantasy, and all
>> fantasies are at least roughly equal. The point is that in the actual
>> course, as distinct from the "broad outlines," of history, conspiracies
>> when successful constitute crucial *moments* and historical actors
>> ignore them at their peril. This is all too evident after September 11
>> last when something awfully like the stench of a burning Reichstag
>> is so evident to any normally sensitive nose.
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>...I think my nose is normally sensitive -- and I don't see _any_ of the
>social conditions that would make such a choice by the ruling class (or
>major elments within it). And in this case it just won't wash to claim
>that it was just a special bunch in side the CIA.
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>What I do see is an already tragically divided left being further
>splintered by wild-goose chases after ruling class conspiracies when, as
>I've said before, the everyday open "secrets" of u.s. imperialism and
>racism are so evident, as they have always been. Our task as unorganized
>leftists is to keep looking for ways we can get together to be prepared
>for the next big popular upsurge (from wherever it comes). Fretting
>about a conspiracy behind 9/11 only interferes with that task.
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>Carrol
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