--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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> > I was thinking of Stalin and Mao, et al.
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> Oour triumphs are triumphs of collective struggles
> of people.
Exactly. And the corollary of this is that our enemy is a reified social relationship, not a group of individuals who are easily slotted into a category.
Andie's personalization ("Stalin and Mao the monsters") is merely the flipside of "Jews are behind finance capital" or "George W. Bush is hurting America".