This assumes, of course, that Carrol, bless his heart, represents orthodox Marxism.
On 2013-01-14, at 9:49 AM, Robert Naiman wrote: > It's funny how little intellectual development has taken place in orthodox > Marxism since 1933. It's like Dorian Gray, frozen in time. > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > A prediction. > > U.S. foreign/military policy will continue unchanged, but the crackpot > realists clinging to the illusion will take advantage of run-of-the-mill > 'vibration' in all policy will claim one of those vibrations as "evidence" > of the good intentions of the Obama Administration. > > Incidentally, one source of considerable intellectual confusion is the > continuing Myth that there exists a separate political current called "The > Neocons." But no real change in policy (real being defined as saving lives) > has occurred in the last 20 years. > > Obama has proved a principled and unmovable defendant of the worst features > of u.s. policy grounded in (a) the war on drugs and (b) the war on terror. > These two "wars" are incompatible with the preservation of even the limited > civil rights traditionally 'enjoyed' by Americans. Obama has greatly > improved on Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, and Bush in building and entrenching > systematic repression in the U.S. Bush was clearly a lesser evil than Obama. > > Carrol > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > > > -- > Robert Naiman > Policy Director > Just Foreign Policy > www.justforeignpolicy.org > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
