[lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions

[Bradford DeLong]

>This is bullshit. You're the one who's passing judgment on who the 
>good guys and bad guys are, dismissing the achivements of the 
>antiwar movement in a short space of time against all the odds 
>imposed by American political culture. You're diagnosing phantom 
>pathologies - as if the war happened because WWP apologized for SH. 
>Fuck that. The war happened because we live in an imperialist state 
>with a passive, depoliticized population, run by a party dominated 
>by violent fundamentalists, with a bunch of complicit patsies 
>pretending to be the opposition. And despite that, a vigorous 
>antiwar movement developed.

Alongside what looks like a vigorous popular spontaneous prowar 
mobilization today in Baghdad...

Brad DeLong