[lbo-talk] Antifa Critique of German "Left Party"

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Chuck0
> As an anarchist, I beg to differ. The current situation in the U.S.A.
> show that the American empire is cracking and crumbling. If that is
> possible, and if the most powerful state can be defeated by a handful of
> insurgents, getting rid of states entirely is possible and desireable.
>
The US could pave Iraq over and be back before x-mas if it wanted to.  The
reason it does not do it is because it pursues two mutually contradicting
objectives - imperial domination and democratic façade.  The USAF has the
capacity of bombing the whole dog-damned place into the stone age  - but it
ain't kosher.  Any potential benefits of such a "final solution" would be
off-set by much greater losses due to the world's outrage.  Besides, the
loss of 2000 cannon fodder - mostly "expendable" minorities - is really a
drop in a bucket for the empire.  

Imperial "crumbling" in Iraq is another wishful thinking delusion - the war
is not a cake walk as Rummie & Wolfie promised, but then nobody really
thought it would be.  The cake walk was just a selling pitch to the gullible
Democracts and the even more gullible sheeple.  But the war is going well
for the US by ordinary warfare standards, the US Army controls the situation
while keeping its losses quite low.  I do not see any crumbling there.

And these loud protesters in DC?  They are nice kids, but if you think they
can take down the US state and the US Army with it, wow - pass the bong,
man.  

But I agree that it is good to be an anarchist - it keeps your hopes up and
the gloom and doom down :)

Wojtek