[lbo-talk] Western states have created the biggest wars in history ( was fartback)

[ravi]

On 07/21/05 10:50, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> Doug:
>> Why do you bother? There's something sectarian about this impulse.
>> 
> 
> Definitely.  I think it perhaps demarcates the Great Left Rift.  On the one
> hand, there are the idealists, the adherents of the Great Satan in the
> North/West theory, the Noble Savage, the
> "populist-paradise-lost-to-capitalist-modernization" crowd, the
> if-it's-local-culture-it-can-do-no-wrong believers, the
> "we-can-change-the-world-by-speaking-the-magic-words" crowd, and the
> "anybody-but-western-white-and-developed" folk.  
> 

this sort of characterization, in itself, demonstrates the real [cause
of the] rift in the left -- at least in the west.

	--ravi