Re: War Crimes
On Aug 5, 2006, at 2:26 AM, Gar Lipow wrote:
As to left critics of Hezbollah, we are again encountering what I
have often called sandbox politics and what Yoshie has labelled “Resolutionary Socialism.” Verbal criticisms of Hezbollah by u.s. leftists will have no material impact in the world. They merely provide a bit of smug self-satisfaction on the part of the critic
for his/her personal moral superiority.Ultimately our target is the U.S. population. I don’t know how U.S. supporters of Palestian rights will ever turn U.S. public opinion around, other than to keep on demonstrating and writing letters, and holding forums and doing the other things we do that don’t seem to have much effect. Right now we have two chances: slim and none. But if we start including unconditional praise for Hizbolla in our attemps at public education it seems to me that slim is going to leave town.
Evidently the subtleties of Coxism elude you. According to the
Commissar of the Cornfields, trying to win Americans to
antiimperialist politics is a waste of time, because it’s best just
to talk to ourselves and the revolutionary moment will happen when
you least expect it anyway. Instead, it’s best to offer rhetorical
support to armed entities half a world away - which is not a form of
resolutionary anti-imperialism, because, well, just because. And
emitting empty anti-imperialist missives from the American midwest is
not an exercise in smug self-satisfaction and personal moral
superiority for the same reasons.
Doug