Translate this to a US view of Nazi Germany in 1940. . . .
Carrol, you are full of it. By your own criterion you should suffer in Beckettian silence about any atrocity, because nothing you or I can say can make the slightest difference to it.
Needless to say, this is defeatist attitude implies mere Stoic acquiescence to what is and is totally inconsistent with any opposition. And you do not maintain it yourself, except to insult people randomly and inconsistently.
Sometimes you are exceedingly annoying. Don't bother to defend, the position is so manifestly hopeless that Beckettian silence is the only honorable response.
I don't expect to hear from you again on any political matter.
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darueber muss man schweigen.
--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
>
> wrobert at uci.edu wrote:
> >
> > Funny, I remember the demand on the part of
> Leninists (in this case the
> > Freedom Road Socialist Organization in Mpls.) to
> never criticize the Iraqi
> > regime or Saddam Hussein during the anti-sanctions
> campaigns... on the
> > logic that "any nail in the coffin of imperialism
> is a good nail" or some
> > bullshit like that.
>
> The reason was bullshit but the point wasn't.
> Criticism that can have no
> political impact is subject to the sneer in my
> previous post. Nothing I
> might have said at any time would have had any
> effect whatever on events
> in Iraq -- hence I never said anything one way or
> the other about
> Saddam. Of course in retrospect it is clear that his
> regime was
> infinitely superior (even for Kurds or Shiites) than
> is the current one.
> The criticism of Iran currently being expressed on
> this list has no
> relevance to Iran; in fact it is not about Iran but
> about what fine
> people the critics themselves are.
>
> Carrol
>
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