[lbo-talk] Re: anti-Americanism and anti-imperialism (was Re: Yoshie: "dialogue" takes listening on your part, too)

Angelus Novus fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 12 15:23:59 PDT 2006


--- Michael McIntyre <mcintyremichael at mac.com> wrote:


> Hence, for most on this list, anti-imperialism is
> anti-Americanism, no?

Most likely, and that's how it should be. I have no problem with that.

I do have a problem with Carrol Cox's snotty assertion that the very idea that there is such a thing as anti-americanism is somehow absurd.

I can understand that "anti-americanism" is a stick used by American reactionaries against domestic opposition, the same way that the Israeli ultra-right uses anti-semitism against domestic opponents. In neither case does it mean that anti-americanism and anti-semitism are phantoms.

But Carrol Cox is not politically naive. Otherwise he wouldn't back away from a debate on the topic. He's just a punkass bitch afraid of being called on his nonsense.

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