"for a long time history is made without them" Re: Terror Inc.

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 11:06 AM -0500 5/5/02, Peter K. wrote:
>  >In the face of that kind of psychological anxiety chain, there are a few
>>ways to respond. For, after all, what is going on here if you're aligned
>>with the left? As a USer, and you can't help having those feelings (Budge
>>has a nice line from a song about this...hope he's reading!), what do you
>>do? You are clearly a member of a group of people that is despised--and for
>>good (from their perspective) they want to wipe the US out. So, Carrol's
>  >dictum--try to think of yourself as NOT an American--doesn't sit well.
>
>Carrol's dictum, reductio ad absurdum, would be for Americans to
>just kill themselves and deprive the war machine of a working gear
>or part.

The extent of abridgement of civil rights & liberties _alone_, to say 
nothing of the scope of military adventurism on the part of the US 
government (_even_ if _no_ Afghan had died due to the war), would 
warrant a general strike or something like that as a response from US 
leftists (if "the Left" had existed here).

However, what Frantz Fanon said of the French Left during the 
Algerian War applies to US leftists in the last several decades: "for 
a long time history is made without them."
-- 
Yoshie

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