[lbo-talk] I am the evil twin of Michael Pugliese

[Seth Ackerman]

Adam Michnik, the hero of the Polish democracy movement, said the 
following. What should we make of this?

On the Iraq invasion:

"Saddam Hussein takes part in this [totalitarianism] just as Hitler and 
Stalin did before him. He asserts that in the holy war with the “godless 
West” all methods are permitted. Waiting for this sort of regime to 
obtain weapons of mass destruction would be plain recklessness."
http://www.worldpress.org/Europe/1086.cfm#down

On the global justice movement:

"What is globalization? Internet, mobile phones, open borders? I’m 
afraid that fear is leading new volunteers to enlist under the banner of 
new ideological crusades. These people say they’re “pro-poor,” but they 
are not campaigning to open up the markets of rich countries in Europe 
and America to products from the developing world. They’re not debating 
reform of the IMF or the World Bank. That would be too specific, too 
down to earth. Like Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Joschka Fischer and Rudi 
Dutschke in 1968, they’re fighting in the name of certain 
revolutionary-communist, anarchist, situationist, Maoist or Trotskyist 
utopias. I can understand them. But today we are well aware of these 
utopias’ genuine nature: they’re stupid. To me, the anti-globalization 
movement is more the symptom of a crisis of thought."
http://www.unesco.org/courier/2001_09/uk/dires.htm