Michael Hardt & Tariq Ali

[Carl Remick]

>From: Thomas Seay <entheogens at yahoo.com>
>
>I think Hardt and Ali both make good points in their
>seperate articles (though I wish that Ali would not
>have resorted to such terms as "immoral" and
>"unjust".).
>
>We mustn't pin our hopes on the UN or nation-states,
>like France or Germany.  I saw too much of this "good"
>european and "bad" american rhetoric in the
>demonstration this past weekend.

I think this caveat about not trusting nation-states or even the UN is a 
straw man.  I don't sense that there is any particular infatuation with 
nation-states/the UN as noble saviors in the anti-war movement at large.  
Cheering on the governments of France or Germany, say, is wholly a matter of 
expedience.  If you want to block a nation-state like the US from committing 
an insane act of aggression, you have to work through the instrument of 
other nation-states.  The anti-globalization movement has long-term 
objectives and should rightly be suspicious of the grubby motivations that 
invariably drive national leaders.  But the anti-war movement has one job to 
do -- Block That War -- and it has to do this quickly using the only tools 
available for the task, nation-states.

Carl

Carl

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