[WS:] Yup. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Wojtek
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> If, with Luxemburg, one rjects completely the Mythology of Progress (of a
> journey of a thousand miles starting with a single step), then there is no
> real difference between the bamboozlement of Americans and the bamboozlement
> of the residents of any other core capitalist nation. Real or alleged
> differences are politically insignificant.
> It is therefore a serious mistake for U.S. anti-capitalists to pay any
> attention at all to the weaknesses or stupidities of Americans. The only
> relevant data conerns that proportion (whether one-halkf of one per ent or 5
> percent who might be reached by a mass movement on a given issue at a given
> time. Whinings, wailings, sneers, etc at the stupidity or reactionary
> opinions of Americans is mere self-indulgence in the superiority of one's
> own perceptions.
>
> Carrol
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