The intellectual origins of America-Bashing

[Otto]

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> The Intellectual Origins Of America-Bashing
> By Lee Harris
> http://www.policyreview.org/dec02/harris.html
> Quite interesting article. Harris is a neocon, but what he has to say
about Karl Marx is astonishing...
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> kwp
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Quite interesting indeed.

What Harris doesn't realize is that before capitalism can turn into
socialism there has to be the inevitable phase of fascism:

"(...) the only effect on America of a continuation of September 11-style
attacks would be an increasingly repressive state apparatus domestically and
a populist home front demand for increasingly severe retaliation against
those nations supporting or hiding terrorists."
http://www.policyreview.org/dec02/harris_print.html

"With the homeland in danger, strong leadership and effective measures
become of the essence, and if you want to call that fascism, very well, call
it whatever you please, no one is likely to be listening, unless it's for
the air raids over to be over and the all clear sound."
(1984 Foreword, p. x)

Luckily I'm no America-basher, but looking for the root-causes of 9/11
automatically leads to a critical view of US policy in particular &
Western-policies and the capitalist world-order in general.

35 million US-Americans are living in poverty already. I wonder how long
they will remain silent about all that taxpayers-money spent in wars abroad;
the Iraq-war, the war on terror and the war on drugs.

Otto