True with respect to Tienanmin, but Mao was a believer that political power
grows out of the barrel of a gun. He sent in the army in 1967 to end the
“cultural revolution” he had begun. The reference to Andrew Jackson, for those
not familiar with some of the intricacies of US History refers to
Though there is much in this exchange to discuss, I'll limit myself to a
correction on a peripheral point: it wasn't Mao that sent in the army. It was
Deng. As long as we're on the issue of how the US is perceived, how homogenous
or heterogeneous it is, , I think it's not such a small thing to
Thanks, Molly, for a relatively cheering summing up. However, I’m not quite
ready to cheer until the election results are in and more or less accepted.
US election laws still favor just two parties, and left ideas are just
beginning to take a very partial hold among Dems nationally.. It’s a
Dear Fellow Travelers,
Keith points below are not only sage, they are of an absolute necessity in the
USA … and I (as a direct descendant of those puritan settler-colonialists,
aboriginal and colonized peoples ( yes,Trump’s worst nightmare) I couldn’t
agree any more.
Christiane Robbins
> On
Hi Brian
my mail seems to have got lost so - in response to your question about what
other places are thinking, here's my note from Australia
From: Sean Cubitt
Sent: Monday, 5 October 2020 8:47 AM
To: nettime-l@mail.kein.org
Subject: Re: A question in earnest
Hi max
"Why is there nothing appearing here about the US election?"
In my case, mostly sheer depression, manifesting as lassitude.
>From outside, Trump's kleptocrats have not only looted the state they captured
>and set the terms for civil war, but done possibly irreparable damage to the
