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Now that is a dreamy thought Charles. Let's hope.
It's like I said, W's a communist agent, inflaming class resentment and crippling our military forces so that a proletarian revolution can take over.
Bush will be out of office in about 16 months. What really is getting worse is extreme Islamic jihadism that threatens our way of life whether were capitalists or marxists, they really don't care.
It's time to start thinking post Bush.
Yes, because proletarian revolutions have such a wonderful track record.
raindrop,
I highly recommend reading this article by Georgie Anne Geyer:
POLITICAL, NOT RELIGIOUS, ISSUES ARE MOTIVATING TERRORISTS
"Actually, all the investigations into who the terrorists are and what inspires them are clear about the fact that their primary inspiration is not religious, but political. The study of 300 suicide bombers made by professor Robert Pape of the University of Chicago found that virtually none of them was religiously inspired; they were communists, socialists, Muslim Brothers, Arab nationalists, but above all, they were inspired by Western occupation and dominance of their lands.
Last week, at a meeting at the New America Foundation, CNN's seasoned terrorist specialist, Peter Bergen, impatiently told a group of us after someone brought up the old question of Islamic madrassah schools inspiring terrorists: "Of all the terrorists that I have known, almost none were from the madrassahs. If they were educated, they were usually from Western universities; they were engineers ..."
Sadly Marx (as is) is never coming back. He needs to be reinvented, reinvigorated, democratized, and polished over, or supplanted by a new, superior political outlook that is true for our age and inspires a new, socially engaged praxis. I think socialism as an idea needs to be restored, and I believe that the radical critique put forth by the Frankfurt Marxists should be renewed by someone other than dumb Adorno quoting rock critics. But the scientific utopianism and teleological Hegelianism of Marx need to be banished, along with his refusal to acknowledge the existence of human rights or the positive qualities of liberal societies. Socialism and liberalism (and I mean liberalism on the right too) should be reconciled and unified for socialism to come back.
Or to be a total dork, the synthesis part of the dialectic must be a true synthesis of the thesis and antithesis, preferably wrought through democratic means. And no, I don't actually believe in the dialectic.
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