Re: Russia and Iran
On Sep 10, 2006, at 11:00 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
Imperialism is an abstraction, not an enemy one can oppose. All
progress anywhere depends on weakening u.s. power, so the only intelligent anti-imperialism in the u.s. is unflagging opposition to u.s. power, everywhere, on every issue. You are as silly as a german communist in the 1930s protesting that his comrades were anti-german instead of anti-imperialist.
Imperialism is a lot more complicated than that. The ruling classes
of Canada, the EU countries, Japan, and Australia are mostly happy
with the present arrangement, of which they are an integral part.
Sure there are family quarrels, as in the run-up to the Iraq war, but
the system is pretty coherent and functional. The second-tier
imperialist powers can occasionally get all high-minded and look down
on the nasty practices of the US, but they’re still part of the
system. There’s a weird narcissism among American leftists who want
to see Washington in this Coxian way.
Doug