[lbo-talk] Cult of Roosting Chickens

Autoplectic autoplectic at gmail.com
Fri Jun 10 22:22:06 PDT 2005


On 6/10/05, Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Michael Pugliese
>
> > http://www.zombietime.com/churchill_in_bay_area/churchill_sf_march_25_2005/


> The basic one-sentence summary of Churchill's Eichmann analogy is
> this: Eichmann was not a cold-blooded killer, but rather a bureaucrat
> whose willingness to be a cog in the Nazi machine contributed to the
> Holocaust; and since the long history of America's heinous crimes
> against humanity make the United States at least as bad as Nazi
> Germany, then anyone who works, however passively, to allow the
> functioning of American society is thereby the moral equivalent of
> Eichmann, and thus the victims of 9/11 were "little Eichmanns" who
> basically had it coming."
> <...>
>
> I'm not sure that Hannah Arendt would disagree with what this fellow
> says Ward Churchill is saying, summarized in one (badly constructed)
> sentence.
>
> Leigh

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Yeah, well, millions of people 'outside' the boundaries of the USA passively *and actively* contribute to the functioning of the USA. Such are the pitfalls of functionalism..............

So many Eichmanns, so little time...........not!



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