Chris says it better than me.
The anti-Clinton campaign from the right was built around a coalition of economic interests and cultural movements who could barely agree on anything except that Clinton had to be stymied.
Tobacco was crucial to this, so were business nationalists (especially textiles and steel) that opposed transnational corporate globalization, so were anti-gay and anti-feminists in the Christian Right, but even here there is an economic basis since many Christian Right activists are anti-tax anti-regulation small business owners. Another core sector was the Patriot movement, made up largely of men worried about downsizing due to transnational corporate globalization.
Were there some conspiracies going on? Sure. But this was largely an intra-elite struggle within capitalism.
-Chip
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Chris Burford
> Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 11:21 AM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: The great Whitewater scandal that never was
>
>
> At 23/03/02 11:48 +0200, you wrote:
> >Another one of those damn conspiracy theories that distract
> us from the
> >broad forces of history by putting forth the view that
> elites can covertly
> >manipulate events and change history.
> >
> >Hakki
>
> Kenneth Starr was linked to tobacco capital, was he not?
>
> There is a bit of a difference between conspiracism, and
> class struggle,
> which includes conspiracies but is not limited to them.
>
> Chris Burford
>
> London
>