[lbo-talk] Re: people in glass cages shouldn't...

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>frank scott wrote:
>
>>"...WW3 REPORT was unable to independently verify the glass cage 
>>incident, but it is sort of beside the point... "
>>
>>the point is that saddam, and milosevic, and, um, whatsisname, are 
>>all satanic butcher-monsters, according to bush, the establishment, 
>>and the weft... those bloody bastards (pick one, any one) sodomized 
>>the blessed virgin mary...though that incident can't be verified, 
>>but is also beside the point...
>>
>>can't you all see the true evil in the world?
>
>"Weft" is cute, but what's your point? Because Bush says Saddam was 
>a monster, he wasn't? I know it's a lot harder to think clearly now 
>that the U.S. doesn't have enemies like Che, Ho, and the Sandinistas 
>anymore, but it's worth a try.
>
>Doug

The concept of "monsters" is a mental block that prevents us from 
analyzing the history of Iraq in particular and the nature of 
political power in a modern state in general.  The approach we we 
want is a combination of historical materialism and concepts such as 
"the banality of evil" developed by Hannah Arendt.
-- 
Yoshie

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