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Jay said: "Comrades: While we have been so focused on the mental state of Jared Loughner, we've been missing out on some important developments in the Arab World, where the masses have toppled a regime in Tunisia and food protesters have taken to the streets en masse in Jordan." I am sure many here have been multi-tasking and following these events while debating whether a should-be mental patient is part of a rightist reaction or a convenient excuse for the Lesser-Evils to call for "civility"--read moving even further to the right than they already are. However, I have found it amazing to see so much energy and intellectual "capital" expended over that issue; in its own way, an example that the LEDs' strategy of obfuscation and justification is being successful. Comparisons of the Presidential sophistry in Arizona to the mass movement memorials to Evers, King, and others in the past are just one of these--seriously, I believe comparing Obama, the Democrats, and Republicans politicizations with memorials to assassinated mass movement leaders no matter how telling are an insult to the veritable fighters for social justice. And THAT contribution was among the best! I'm not sure if you meant it in this way, Jay, but I do thank you for pointing up the patently ridiculous "analysis" of Loughner and related issues of mental incapacity under capitalism as juxtaposed to veritable calamities and real crimes being shoved under the rug in the name of "civility of discourse". If ever there was a time for Marxists/Revolutionists to be uncivil, it is now. Who knows, maybe we'll be getting back to more substantive issues that have been overshadowed by a collective water-cooler discourse on whether it is good to be civil or uncivil (I vote for the latter), whether a nut is a racist or just a nut, and crying "foul" that the President would use this event in the predictable and inevitable way that it has been used. Really appreciate Marce Cameron's blogs, btw. Cuba's "socialist renewal" is just what I needed to pick up the pieces. Mercí, compañero Manuel ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
