[lbo-talk] Alex Cockburn going the Hitchens way?

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Jun 19 11:45:21 PDT 2006


ravi wrote:
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> The last sentence alone seems to distance him from reality.

No. The last sentence shows a fine grasp of the realities of any attempt to organize mass resistance outside electoral politics. Focusing on true conspiracies is as useless an activity as focusing on imaginary conspiracies. They all lead away from effective political action. Individuals or individual villains are not the problem. The U.S. government _at its best_ is the problem.

Carrol



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