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

[Jerry Monaco]

On 7/12/06, Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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Well put me on the side of Carrol's "snotty assertion".  Anti-americanism is
a bugaboo-lable created by so-called "Americans", i.e. a section of the U.S.
intellectual elite, to explain why people hate having the U.S. boot on their
neck.

One wonders at this distance from the historical origins why some ancient
Roman Senators (such as Cato the Elder) thought that Rome was surrounded by
enemies intent upon destroying the Republic, and thus Rome needed to make
sure that it acted "defensively" to destroy its anit-Roman enemies.  If
there was such a thing as "anti-Romanism" it was simply created by Roman
factions to explain their own policies of murder and slaughter.  Ditto
"anti-Americanism".

Jerry Monaco
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