[lbo-talk] as if on cue

[Carrol Cox]

Doug Henwood
Forgot the part about the shared lie about the past and a unifying hatred of
the neighbors.

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I'd never come across this, but it is an extremely useful perspective.
Stalin's common language and common culture simply don't fit actual history.
I came across something in the last year or so on France which indicated
that it did not have either a common language or culture, not even an
approach to such, until imposed in the late 19th-c. I can't remember any of
the details, so this isn't too reliable but it seemed persuasive at the
time. Something like that would explain the eagerness of the French army to
find an internal enemy in Drefuss. 

Carrdol