[lbo-talk] Re: Answer to Doug posted a Stratfor article on the Pope

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Why is it that the war between faiths is bulging at this period of
history--why didn't it surge on hitherto? The crucial question needs to be
answered in a scientific sociological context.
Capitalism is rotten to its core in all the fields of
socio-politico-cultural aspects. Capitalism/imperialism is in the gravest
crisis ever. It must die or fight the Third World Idiotic War. That is what
it is doing. It is fighting the Third Idiotic War--not outright, but
Chapterwise. Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Afghan wars were the preamble to the Third
Idiotic War--the first chapter of the war is being written currently in
Iraq. The chapters to follow will be Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Pakistan, India,
China... The arrangement of the chapters will be according to the
circumstances.
The root questions will remain unanswered as ever. Why are Muslims the
backward-most, ignorant-most... community in the world? Why are they still
in the feudal and pre-feudal epochs in social history with capitalism and
imperialism grafted thereon in a horrid mess?... And hence what is their
real crisis? Professionalism and secularism comes from the development of
capitalism. It is the world-trade that crowned the West with triumph over
the feudal and pre-feudal non-sense. Iraq remained under embargo for more
than a decade. Western bosses are the ardent enemies of industrialisation in
the East/South--naturally, for how can they afford to lose their income and
profits?
Islamic word as well as the third world is in a devastating chaos therefore.
The bourgeoisie, feudal lords and warlords can't understand anything about
what is going on in the world and what the demand of the time is. How to
survive and progress is hardly their concern;. they are ritualists and
status-quoists. They just cling to the wealth and positions they have
amassed or robbed from the public--and are akin to the dogs of the US
bosses, that shower crumbs of bread on them.
Capitalism has reached its ultimate saturation from which it can't grow any
further--unemployment, poverty, hunger, famines, wretchedness,
purposelessness of life, frustration, madness, and so forth will be the
consequences of it--amidst over-production, high scientific achievements,
exploration, etc. It must devastate many countries to rebuild them--it must
kill billions of human beings to provide itself a little more space for
breating. It must destroy the humanity itself to live a bit longer.
Ramesh Bhat

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com>
To: "LBO Talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Stratfor on the Pope


> Doug posted a Stratfor article, which read:
>
>
> "Benedict's thoughtful discussion of this problem
> needs to be considered. Also to be considered is why
> the pope chose to throw a hand grenade into a powder
> keg, and why he chose to do it at this moment in
> history. The other discussion might well be more
> worthy of the ages, but this question -- what did
> Benedict do, and why did he do it -- is of more
> immediate concern, for he could have no doubt what the
> response, in today's politically charged environment,
> was going to be."
>
>
>
> I'm not sure why Pope Benedict did it, either, but
> I've seen the results: a re-polarization of sides, and
> folks speaking in terms of big, monolithic power units
> again -- "the West," which is the in-group, versus
> "The Muslims," the out-group, once more. It's
> re-fortified these old football teams for a little
> bit.
>
> I'm almost embarrassed to say it was only through
> talking with Muslims in my teens that I realized how
> heinous the Crusades really were. The Crusades are
> still often portrayed as a kind of sweeping, romantic
> epic, same way with the French Foreign Legion in the
> past. The Children's Crusade is especially barbarous &
> shameful, but when I read about it growing up it was
> presented as a kind of holy and inspiring moment in
> which even the precious wee lads could teach jaded old
> cynics a thing or two about spirituality. If 100%
> true, it was actually the conscription of 20,000
> youths to march into combat and to certain death, all
> to take over foreign lands. Fact or fiction, the story
> was often portrayed as "inspiring."
>
> The Catholics in my family are upset about "the
> Muslims" on this one. To me, watching the Pope inspire
> controversy with some Islamic groups is like watching
> a member of the Libertarian Party inspire controversy
> with folks who are members of the John Birch Society
> -- I'm not really on anyone's side here. The Pope
> isn't exactly someone I'll be rushing to defend any
> time soon.
>
> At least he didn't quote Emperor Tiberius: "They can
> hate me, provided they also fear."
>
> Nazi popes fuck off,
>
> -B.
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