[lbo-talk] ninos de la noche

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Aug 30 10:19:52 PDT 2008


Eric wrote:
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> But I also despair for a left that continually makes arguments based
> on the categories of international law: "War Criminal" (capitalized
> even) and "murderous" in a single sentence, in your case. This is
> Chomsky's whole schtick, no? International law is the same structure
> that helps guarantee the capitalist world order. Do you really think
> you can appeal to it for liberation from capitalism?

There are some complexities here, but I'm nnot particularly prepared for high-level theoretical analysis today -- so I'll simply say that I would agree with this pretty much.

Carrol



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