[lbo-talk] Chomsky: Israel Lobby ?

Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org
Fri Mar 31 09:23:49 PST 2006


Also, capitalism in general has internal contradictions, so to speak, that are irreconcilable contradictions _against_ even the ruling class, _especially_ against the ruling class. Maybe the situation in the Middle East has no solution for the U.S. ruling class ( poor little ruling class). The U.S. capitalists' interests there will be in crisis if they support Israel and will be in crisis if they don't support Israel; would be in crisis there if they had supported Israel forty years ago, and would be in crisis if they hadn't supported Israel forty years ago.

Hopefully so, anyway.

A basic idea of Marxism is that the internal contradictions, horny dilemmas, of capitalism are insoluable ultimately within capitalism. The U.S.-Israel-Middle East situation may be a specific expression of this general situation.

On the other hand, a big part of the "action" in capitalist history is war, economic crisis and instability by which the ruling class creates for itself through destruction of others.

Charles



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