[lbo-talk] Re: Yoshie: "dialogue" takes listening on your part, too

Angelus Novus fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 12 14:36:15 PDT 2006


Carrol Cox:


>This is incoherent non-sense because he can't begin
to >define what he means by anti-american without
>immediately contradicting himself, for he will have
to >say that because certainpeople are anti-imperialist and >_therefore_ are anti-american.

I don't even expect to get a response from you, because your fundamentally authoritarian character causes you to make inflammatory statements and then take off like a chickenshit whenever anyone calls you on your bullshit, but I'll take the bait.

Let me give you a real easy example of the difference between principled anti-imperialism and anti-Americanism.

Someone who is opposed to the American war in Iraq, *and* to Germany's carving up of the former Yugoslavia, as well as Germany's recently approved "peacekeeping" mission to the Congo, is an Anti-imperialist.

Someone who went on the streets with the rest of the German mob on February 15th, 2003 to protest the looming war in Iraq, but who never did a thing about NATO's criminal war against Serbia or any other European-approved "humanitarian" mission, is fundamentally Anti-American.

Additionally, people who call for a European army, and for building up the EU as a counter-hegemonic force to the USA, are Anti-American. An anti-imperialist follows Karl Liebknecht in locating the main enemy in one's own land.

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