[lbo-talk] Re: meat for 9/11 conspiracists]

[joanna bujes]

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>     >
>     > I object to conspiracy theory because promulgating it (like
>     throwing the
>     > word "fascism" around) tends to deflect from the nature of
>     capitalism
>     > and of the fundamental policies of capitalist states. The charge
>     > "fascist" against Bush or the charge of administration
>     conspiracy in the
>     > case of 9/11 (or of CIA involvement in the assassination of John
>     > Kennedy) have the _material_ effect of giving aid and comfort to
>     the
>     > Democratic Party and to the arguments of those who claim that
>     capitalism
>     > is the best system but is corrupted by! bad people in one way or
>     another.
>

I understand what you're getting at, but I don't understand how wanting 
to know what actually happened is nothing but "conspiracism". I would 
like to know what happened. I don't agree that this desire and the 
pursuit of a true account necessarily translates into "aid and comfort" 
to the Democrats. The Democrats are, after all, as complicit in the 
secrecy as the Repubs.


>     The exposure of the Watergate conspiracy was _one_ of the factors
>     in the
>     > steady rout of the left after 1974. 
>
Yeah....and?

Surely, as a materialist, it ought to matter to you what the material 
truth is? Otherwise we're all just madly pursuing the logic of ideas. No?

Joanna