Good point, as usual.
What is the core of this dispute? I wont react on rather childish "CIA
connections" conspiracy theories of Chomsky and his oeuvre, but I will go
directly on some more general issues. Why is Tony posting these messages and
why is Jared Israel replying in such a manner? Because there is a
fundamental disagreement in building antiwar, antimilitarist movement, not
just in US, but in great number of other countries. Our web organization ,
Resistance (www.resistancenet.org ) has, in our manifesto and our program,
one very important moment: that antiwar movement can be built only, I repeat
only, on the category of the resistance; going back to what is fundamental,
as Regis Debray likes to say. And this means, translated in more practical
terms, in relation with the creation of unified antimilitarist movement,
that we must abandon the category of "support" and move the tenant from
"oppressed government" to which we are providing help, to "oppressed
civilians" which choice we are supporting. This is very important. Unlike
Jared Israel, to use Jared only as example, we are of the opinion that only
acting in this way, and not by giving undeserved support to Beloved and
Respected Comrade Leaders Milosevic, Qadafi, Saddam et al, we can "criticize
the workings of institutions, which appear to be both neutral and
independent; to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the
political violence which
has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that
one can fight against them" (M. Foucault); otherwise, we are doomed to
failure and finding ourselves in situation in which we are not helping
people- and this is, I hope you all agree, the only important thing- but,
instead, doing exactly what establishment wants us to do: quarrel among
ourselves and unwisely support States instead of resisting imperialism and
NATO militarism.
So, our "political philosophy" is very simple, summed up in four words:
organize, educate, emancipate & resist!
Only this approach to this new reality we are living and experiencing,
acknowledging the flexibility of capitalist democracies, State violence and
imperialism, can help us confront these challenges.
Please be so kind and patient to read our manifesto and program. So, this
disagreement really address "the issues of a more general relevance"; I
think, moreover, that they are of crucial relevance.
With respect,
Andrej Grubacic
www.resistancenet.org
----- Original Message -----
From: TAHIR WOOD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: RE: [CrashList] What's all this??????
> Where can the Chomsky vs. Milosevic, crimes/ what crimes
> wrangle still go on this list? I think the onus now rests on
> the protagonists to show the rest of us that something is
> going to be achieved by continuing this thread indefinitely
> and I think this will only happen if it moves away from the
> specific individuals to issues of a more general relevance,
> don't you think?
>
> Tahir
>
>On Chomsky, why is anyone surprised? He worked at MIT all his life and one
>of his best friends is a former CIA director. Gimme a break, what ELSE did
>you expect?
Mark
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