[lbo-talk] Re: Blaming the lobby

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sun Mar 26 10:20:51 PST 2006


Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> Maybe so, but what about the way that they have picked of congressional representives who
> opposed Israel, beginning with Paul Finley and onto the recent electoral defeats of Black
> reps. in the South?

The point is not that Israel is weak but that its strength is grounded in, depends on, the overarching power of u.s. imperialism.

And the point is not that the Zionist lobby is weak but that its power is grounded in the general ideological and cultural strength of the u.s. ruling class.

Hence the lobby can have great influence (defeating Finley -- who incidentally probably was anti-semitic), but it would lose that influence were it not supported by the cultural and political power of the u.s. ruling class.

;-> Cf Saruman in the Lord of the Rings. (The book, not the movie.)

Carrol



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