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>Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:03:56 -0600
>From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Monbiot on 9/11 "Truth" Theories
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
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>andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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>> Published on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 by the
>> Guardian / UK
>> 9/11 Fantasists Pose a Mortal Danger to Popular
>> Oppositional Campaigns
>> These conspiracy idiots are a boon for Bush and Blair
>> as they destroy the movements some of us have spent
>> years building
>>
>> by George Monbiot
>
>I agree with this but it's really irrelevant. Nothing we can say is
>going to persuade those committed to conspiricism. Engels pointed out
>long ago that a whole congeries of kooks always gathers around the
>workers' movement. That changes only when the left becomes so large and
>active that the kooks simply become less visible. A left that can't grow
>while dragging along conspiracists, spiritualists, AIDS denialists,
>window-smashers, various sectarians, etc etc etc is not a left that is
>going to go anywhere. Nothing can be done about them directly, and a
>constant drawing in of one's skirts to indicate one's superiority to the
>riff-raff is a waste of time.
>
>Carrol
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