Nathan and Imperialsim

[Doug Henwood]

Apropos the popular appeal of the word "imperalism" - there's a lot 
of evidence that the U.S. public doesn't like it (not, of course, 
that it's up to them to decide, so no lectures please on the limits 
of bourgeois democracy). Elite opinion leaders are always worrying 
about the masses' indifference to foreign policy - they have to be 
scared into going along. So I wouldn't misunderestimate, as our 
president once said, the popular appeal of a critique of empire.

Doug