----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Murray" <seamus2001 at attbi.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 5:08 PM Subject: Re: re Next
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Burford" <cburford at gn.apc.org>
>
> > >From: Max B. Sawicky (sawicky at bellatlantic.net)
> > >Date: Mon Mar 03 2003 - 09:22:57 EST
> > >
> > >
> > >What we do until the shooting starts is plain enough: more of
> > >the same.
> > >
> > >But the next question is what to do after it starts, while
> > >fighting is going on.
> > >
> > >And the question after that is what to do, supposing there
> > >is a cakewalk for the U.S. military, followed by a volatile
> > >Afghanistan-type situation.
> >
> >
> > My preference is for something broader than a peace movement that can
> > respond flexibly to the different requirements and different prioties.
> > Something enlarged into a movement for peace and justice, (justice
> > including economic and social justice and not just individual bourgeois
> > legal justice - justice for oppressed communities.) The nearest
alternative
> > is to perpetuate an international movement focussed around opposition ot
US
> > hegemonism. But that will still require a focus as to the isses on which
US
> > hegemonism is particularly to be challenged.
> >
> > Chris Burford
> > London
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>
> C'mon Chris, the issue is not issues, but the institutions!
IMF/WB/WTO/Federal
> Reserve/Treasury/Pentagon and the materiality/practices that are
constitutive of
> their contestable and unstable legitimacy.
>
> Ian
>