[lit-ideas] Re: Marx's influence in America
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 16:35:37 -0500
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> From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: 2/8/2006 2:06:35 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Marx's influence in America
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> If you really want to be a Marxist and are wedded to a "one cause"
> approach--and here I'm being just a little silly--the war was neither
> about slavery nor about states' rights; the war was fundamentally
> imperial, it was about which vision of the future to impose on people
> who weren't yet part of the country!
I.e., which vision of the future to impose on new territories *regarding
slavery*. There was no other issue. If there was, it wasn't worth
secession.
For Lawrence, is it possible that people aren't necessarily -ist's of one
type of another? Reducing everyone to a label is like choosing black and
white, without even shades of gray. Just a thought. Likewise, I know you
like preemptive military action, but it's a no brainer that if you hit
someone, they'll hit you back. Then what do you do? I thought the
following from Mother Jones was interesting. It's a timeline, more or
less, of the lead up to the Iraq invasion. It's from Mother Jones.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/01/12_405.html
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