I'm sorry Karl, I'm sure you are a nice fellow but the below could have
generated by a marxist version of that postmodernist jargon generator that
you've probably seen. Clumps of marxese with little empirical backbone.
Conjecture about ruling class policy shifts/fractures/motives which I
wouldn't necessarily disagree with but, esp. to those you are trying to
reach that are not ideological leftists, would this be the way you conduct
agit-prop in your mass work?
Michael Pugliese
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From: "Karl Carlile" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 8:01 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:17138] Bush caused Manhattan destruction
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> The recent use of hijacked aircraft in an attack on US buildings involving
the
> destruction of two of the tallest buildings in the world and damage to the
> Pentagon has had a serious political impact on the global situation.
> The fact that such a coordinated operation, despite the loss of thousands
of
> lives, has had such a serious ongoing political impact is a reflection of
the
> weakness of American imperialism. The fact that the actions of a
relatively
> small number of terrorists is followed by a political change on the
present
> ongoing scale is evidence of the serious crisis facing global capitalism.
It is
> evidence too of the increasing obsolescence of capitalism and the
existence of
> objective conditions, already overripe, for the establishment of communist
> relations of production. It is not insignificant that these events and
their
> serious political impact has been taking place in the context of growing
global
> capitalist economic slowdown.
> The destruction wrought by the terrorist operation, notwithstanding its
scale,
> is not a cause, by itself, for the significant political changes that are
> following from it. The American bourgeoisie is exploiting this terrorist
act to
> wilfully generate an atmosphere and mood that provides the pretext for the
> present kind of political response by US imperialism. It is clear that the
> socio-political difficulties facing the US bourgeoisie are on such a scale
that
> it requires the kind of political conditions it is currently seeking to
> construct in the aftermath of this recent terrorist act. American
imperialism,
> through the medium of its state apparatii and its mass media, has been
> relentlessly whipping up hysteria both domestically and globally to
provide
> itself with the pretext to create changing political conditions that
better suit
> its class interests. Such changed circumstances gives the US bourgeoisie
the
> pretext for domestically broadening and intensifying its already
aggressive
> imperialist actions --actions that have led to this loss of life in
Manhattan
> and Washington. The fact that it must whip up such hysteria to escalate
its
> domestic and international aggressiveness is irrefutable evidence of its
fear
> of the American and indeed world working class. Because of its class
weakness it
> is increasingly unable to freely engage in increasingly aggressively
> imperialist action without first having to generate conditions (through
the
> whipping up of mass hysteria etc.) that fool the US working class into
passively
> and actively supporting its oppressive policies. However as its present
> aggressiveness is broadened and intensified the consciousness of layers of
the
> US working class will increasingly penetrate the fog of bourgeois
mystification
> to see the naked predatory nature of US capitalism.
> It is the duty of communists to courageously highlight the real source of
the
> terrorist act that has resulted in so much loss of the lives of American
> workers. It is the duty of communists to urge the working class to resist
and
> challenge the predatory actions of US imperialism against the masses of
the
> world. This means that communists, where possible must, organise against
the
> vast propaganda machinery of the capitalist state that is being used to
whip up
> hysteria and jingoism. It must, where possible, organise rallies and other
forms
> of popular protest against Washington's increasing aggressiveness against
the
> US and world working class.
> The source of the recent terrorist operation that has led to the loss of
life of
> many American workers is none other than US imperialism. The increasing
> intensification of American imperialist aggression on the global stage
against
> the world working masses is the cause of this act of terrorism.
Washington's
> bombing of Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq and Serbia is the cause of this recent
> terrorist act on US soil and will be the cause of further terrorist acts.
> American imperialism's invasion of Serbia and active support for the
current
> savage attempt by the Israeli state to crush the Palestinian people is the
> source of this terrorism. By treating people like pigs they will act like
pigs.
> Consequently the American working class must place the blame for this
great loss
> of working class life on the real perpetrators of this terrorist
ct --the
> world's greatest terrorist, the US bourgeoisie. It must accordingly
proceed to
> rid itself of this class by destroying capitalism and replacing it with
> communist society. In this way it will have created the conditions that
will
> make terrorism an impossibility. American imperialism pursues policies
that
> lead to the death and injury of hundreds of thousands of workers both
inside and
> outside the US. Today instead of joining hands with its bourgeoisie US
workers
> must join hands with the workers of the world who have suffered too at
the
> hands of US imperialism. It is a capitalist class whose time is over and
that
> can no longer play any progressive role in the development of society. Its
hands
> are covered in blood --it is a natural born killer. It must be eliminated
by
> American workers class joining hands with European, Arab and Asian workers
> against US imperialism in the interests of humanity. By the world working
class
> jointly acting against US imperialism it is uniting against all
terrorism --the
> only real way of eliminating terrorism.
>
> Regards
> Karl Carlile
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