It's also a bad and lazy habit when people do this with Iraq. Did you know that Iraqis revolted against the British, therefore they're automatically going to revolt against the U.S.?
Did you know that Israel was driven out of Lebanon, therefore the U.S. will be driven out of Iraq? Have you noticed the "eerie" similarities between the Roman empire and ours, therefore it's only a matter of time before barbarians sack our cities? It's in the history books, dude, look it up!
> Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 16:46:35 -0400
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: ______ and America
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>
> Yeah, I know about the injuries of class. But the
> U.S. in 2003 is not
> a peasant society, has no active Communist Party
> sponsoring meetings,
> and is characterized by the willingness of people to
> go on TV and
> talk about how their grandmother likes having sex
> with horses, but
> not about their class position. It's a bad and lazy
> habit to cite
> moments from the revolutionary past like this.
>
> Doug
>
>
> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> >Ummm, then read Sennett's The Hidden Injuries of
> Class, now 30 years
> >old, but still recognizable. I think there's
> actually a lot to be
> >learned from Fanshen, or even older stuff. I'm
> reading Thucydides
> >now, and finding it very much on point. jks
> >
> >Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> >
> >Carrol Cox wrote:
> >
> >>I would suggest as a tonic here the chapters in
> _Fanshen_ in which
> >>Hinton details the frustration felt by the CPC
> group in Longbow at their
> >>inability to get any of the peasants to stand up
> in an open meeting and
> >>give evidence of the injuries they had suffered.
> >
> >And how is that relevant to life in the United
> States in 2003?
> >
> >Doug
> >___________________________________
> >
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