Syria: The Feckless Left

by Malooga
lifted from a comment
One must not forget the disgraceful petition put out by what calls itself the "L
eft" in the name of "dignity and freedom" last week, the so-called "Global Campa
ign of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution". The geo-political analysis of the
screed would not pass the muster of a child, and the empty verbiage comes strai
ght out of a George W. Bush or Barak Obama speech -- without exaggeration. In an
y event, don't mislead yourself into thinking the timing was accidental in the f
ace of the collapse of the mercenary Takfiri front. Because it wasn't. When the
empire finds its back against wall, it will not hesitate in pulling out all stop
s -- even if it means trotting out a brigade of tired old leftists in its dirty
service.
And if ever there was evidence that the entire moribund left intellectual class
is bought and sold, this is surely it. One should carefully examine the list of
names and publicly excoriate them for their now public complicity in internation
al war crimes and the use of chemical weaponry. Tariq Ali, Norman Finkelstein!,
Richard Seymour (author of "The Liberal Defence of Murder," "tracing the descent
of liberal supporters of war..."), Anthony Arnove (Howard Zinn's boy), Fredric
Jameson, Vijay Prasad, Ilan Pappe, Stephen R. Shalom, Alice Walker and so on dow
n the line, over 220 Benedict Arnolds in all. Laudable behavior in the past is n
o excuse for lying while supporting Takfiri murderers in the present. May every
single one of them know what it is like to be exposed to DU -- in the name of fr
eedom and democracy, of course!
According to these house puppets, "The revolution in Syria (sic) is ... also an
extension of the Zapatista revolt in Mexico, the landless movement in Brazil, th
e European and North American revolts against neoliberal exploitation", and ever
y other emotional struggle for justice that these betrayers can throw against th
e wall and hope it sticks, while, like a virus, they live off the suffering of o
thers, with their pompous pontificating and venal obfuscating, as their salaries
and position are paid for by the big boys.
I am sorry that do to personal problems I am not at present able to take the tim
e to deconstruct the empty verbiage of that embarrassing petition line by line a
s I have done with others in the past (The Euston Manifesto). This document's va
cuous invocation of democracy, freedom and the Geneva Convention, its selective
one-sided claims bereft of any factual evidence whatsoever, its twisting of trut
h on its head and its transparent Orwellism against "Asad s regime" should be a deep
and enduring embarrassment for any signatory of the document.
In ostensibly "hop(ing) for a free, unified, and independent Syria," (Didn't tha
t exist, albeit with blemishes, as all power structures exhibit, until a few yea
rs ago? The same hope was evinced for Iraq after the nation was first destroyed,
but why should a few well trained house lackeys quibble over cause and effect?)
while "confront(ing) a world upside down" consisting of "Russia, China, and Ira
n," (the bad guys) and in throwing in their lot and supporting "the US and their
Gulf allies" (the good guys -- Saudi Arabia and Qatar for hummus sake!) these a
historical ignoramuses not only have the blood of innocent Syrians on their head
s, but that of the multi-million Iraqis and hundreds of thousands of Libyans, Af
ghanis, Yemeni, Sudanese and many other nations killed, injured, displaced and d
ispossessed by the time honored imperial strategy of divide et impera, divide an
d conquer. Apparently, those who refuse to study the bloody history of the West'
s destabilization campaigns are consigned (perhaps enlisted?) to support them.
As the election of Barak Obama, supported by similar empty-headed intellectual i
dealists, has proved, "Hope," in the absence of an honest and rigorous economic
and power analysis, a realistic and workable political strategy of opposition, a
nd the building of a viable alternative power structure, is even more destructiv
e than surly apathy. These intellectuals' piteous petition evinces none of the a
bove minimal requirements for successful activism -- except, of course, for Hope
, the Orwellian trope of our decade. Their elitist Hope, is misplaced from the g
et go, of course -- for there is no attempt in the petition to address or assay
the hopes and desires of the majority of the Syrian people. Instead, it is all a
bout their precious hope. When your car careens off the road, you momentarily "h
ope" you won't be killed, although you know it is too late for hope; Intellectua
l study, attainment and popular acclaim is supposed to provide more effective to
ols than hope. In this case, like petition signing, apparently.
It simply beggars belief that the Left -- which claims to pride itself on solid
structural analysis as opposed to groupcentric conspiracy theory -- betrays its
utter ignorance of its purported forte (the former) while buying whole hog into
the later, namely into the magical conspiracy theory that the removal of an indi
vidual, Assad, rather than the democratic restructuring of a power structure and
national political economy, will in any way help solve the Syrians' problems. T
he undemocratic abdication of the duly elected "Bashar al-Asad," as called for b
y the petitioners, would clearly leave a prolonged bloody power vacuum, with eve
ry interested external and internal party vying in the darkest of ways for suppo
rt, thereby inaugurating in a reign of terror even worse than at present and des
troying the state. The recent bloody examples of Iraq and Libya should be obviou
s even to the purblind pusillanimous petitioners. One might think An honest leftist
, Stephen Gowans once described this type of thinking among the left as the "Rog
ue's Gallery" syndrome: the demonization of individual "monsters" like Saddam Hu
ssein, Qaddaffi, Chavez, Castro. As the noted political thinker Noam Chomsky not
oriously and repeatedly opined a decade ago, (paraphrased), "Iraqis, and the wor
ld, would be much better off without Saddam Hussein." So much for the vaunted st
ructural analysis of the left. But who, especially the tenured left, has time fo
r historical memory in an age of evanescent tweets?
To even imagine that one could throw one's hat in with the US, Zionist Israel, b
ought off and dying NATO, Saudi Arabian, and Qatari interests and end up with so
me type of leftist anti-globalist democracy movement complying with the will of
the Syrian people is absolutely and utterly laughable. The destruction of Sirte
and the ethnic cleansing of Tawergha, as well as the confessional partition of I
raq, come to mind as case examples of more likely consequences, especially for a
multi-confessional state such as Syria. Do these people really have academic de
grees; do they study history; are they in any way capable of critical thinking?
They betray the rankest of historical ignorance, and to my mind, these moronic i
ntellectuals demonstrate the far-sighted perspective of an ostrich with its head
in the sand. It is truly a left gone mad.
***2
Of more serious import, is these morons' ignorance of, and complicity in, the pr
ocess of shock doctrine globalization: How are nations dragooned into debt servi
tude, the Washington Consensus, by the bankers, the IMF, the WTO, while a few do
zens walk away with billions? The destabilization of Iceland, Spain, Greece, Cyp
rus, a veritable rampage of county after country demonstrates that military mean
s need not be necessary. Politicians are bought, laws are changed without fanfar
e or understanding by the masses, globalist media lies, populations are mislead,
non-democratic agreements are passed, and fewer and fewer corporations run by a
n interlocking directorate of hundreds gets stronger and stronger. The commons i
s privatized, safety nets are cut, and unemployment, a form of soft genocide, is
abetted. Everything is privatized and centralized into non-accountable, non-dem
ocratic global corporatist hands. The entire world has become just one big "exte
rnality" for the globalized military to handle. For holdouts, stronger means are
necessary: Markets, commodity prices, interest rates, etc. are manipulated by t
he market makers. Ethnic and confessional destabilization campaigns are funded a
nd fomented. Anger is channeled through unaccountable foreign NGOs, globalist fu
nded faux-democracy movements, neo-liberal and powerless placeholders for the bi
g boys all, but with catchy brands and great graphics, led by cult-like charisma
tic leaders whose radiant clothes cover their programmatic nakedness: This chara
de is what the aforementioned signatories, without a trace of awareness or irony
refer to in their petition as "civic society," a faux society of profession tec
hnicians who manage the now crumbling societies "unrealistic expectations" and r
esistance. George Soros would be proud!
Peaceful protests against the hapless leader who initially attempted to placate
the Globalist neo-liberal order by privatizing the commanding heights of the eco
nomy, by providing rent-a-torture services to the empire, are organized by the s
ame globalist powers who forced or bribed the nation's venal leaders into neo-li
beral contortions in the first place. It is never enough for the ghouls. Once th
e International order has their eyes on your country, you're damned if you attem
pt to comply and damned if you attempt to resist. False flag attacks destabilize
, and then the hired hands come in -- in Syria's case, the Takfiris. Apparently,
these esteemed intellectuals, so concerned with democracy and dignity, have nev
er read John Perkins, Naomi Klein, or the blog LandDestroyer, among others. The
entire process is, as Hannah Arendt might say, banally ordinary. And the feckles
s left happily signs on to the banality.
Iraq, Libya, Indonesia, Panama, the Philippines, and a dozen other countries. Th
e feckless left should have a grip on the storyline, or what they like to call "
the narrative" by now. But no, like the Keystone Cops, they fall for it every ti
me.
And yet, despite the violence and destabilization that is taking down the world,
one nation at a time, in a mad, mad race to the bottom -- might one think that
this is cause to organize and petition for the feckless structural left. Nay, th
ey say! All problems will be solved once Assad goes, declares the feckless struc
tural, magical thinking left! Get on the bus, sign the magical petition, and go
Further!
***3
In 1940, the astrophysicist George Gamow published "The Birth And Death Of The S
un." In it, he described the evolutionary tracks of stars. Stars differ by mass,
and composition, and thereby final fate, but their evolutionary sequences, thei
r life paths, could now be reliably predicted, he stated. Without an intelligent
, informed, organized global resistance, we are now in the same place with natio
ns within the global world order or more accurately, world system. If they resis
t, they can be a Haiti, a Honduras, a Yugoslavia, an Iraq, a Libya, a Syria, per
haps even a Soviet Union. Depending on their "mass," the composition of their in
dustries, their constituent ethnicities and religions, and the strength of their
resistance to Globalism, their fate can be reliably predicted.
Its nice to talk about dignity and democracy and freedom as the wealthy petition
signers do. But the reality is that there is none of that without jobs and econ
omic security for all. And the neo-liberalism of centrally controlled Globalism
that is rapidly being rolled out around the world is all about destroying that f
or everyone (including the petition signatories), in the name of "workplace flex
ibility." Corporations have freedom and dignity and democracy within globalized
trade organizations, not people, these days. That is to say, they now have the l
egal standing and rights which people once had, no matter how much the petition'
s signatories may wish or bleat otherwise. To blame Assad for this globalized tr
ansfer -- theft, really -- of rights is naive and misplaced, and to expect a ser
iously destabilized society to provide what their own relatively more stable soc
ieties cannot is both illogical and deeply patronizing of the Syrian people.
At the present juncture, the only force strong enough to resist this shock doctr
ine globalism-at-gunpoint crisis methodology is economic nationalism. Sure, nati
onalism is a drag, outmoded, and overly narrow in perspective. Many historical c
omplaints can be legitimately set against it. In the long run, it is not the way
to go for the planet or its inhabitants. But right now it is the only force str
ong enough to stand up to neo-liberal globalism. At the moment, as that wicked w
itch Maggie famously said, "There is no alternative." A movement of a few naive
students have not been able to stand up to globalism, and neither have 1 million
people occupying a nation's central square. Effective resistance to this global
process -- an intentional run-down to the lowest common denominator of wealth,
health, security, etc., and a run-up to the highest common denominator of pollut
ion and ecological destruction, all in favor of corporate rights owned by a few
people and enforced at the end of a gun -- without an effective global strategy
and sustained global support, is merely wishful thinking, i.e., hope. Yet, we ar
e are nowhere near that point of resistance yet, and with the aid of these morib
und intellectuals, fecklessly yet sanctimoniously targeting one "monster" at a t
ime, we may never get there. In my humble opinion, economic nationalism must be
seen as a stepping stone away from centralized unaccountable globalism towards a
more decentralized, economically just world. If I should be mistaken, I welcome
any viable alternative strategies. Perhaps the feckless left will invite me to
sign their petition!
These great vaunted intellectuals have not come up with an education program of
resistance to globalism for their own countries, or one for Syria. Neither have
they come up with a game-plan, a strategy for resistance. They lead no great mov
ements of resistance in their own countries. they speak not to the masses, but t
o other intellectuals, a privileged 10%, if that. Like ostriches all, they deny
and ignore the problem. Worse, they misdiagnose it: The problem is Assad (Hussei
n, Qaddaffi, Aristede, Chavez wasn't good enough) -- whatever -- it is an indivi
dual problem, not a systemic and global one. He, (whomever) is a bad leader; he
made concessions to the globalists; he made deals with his national elite, whate
ver. In the end, for these utopians, Castro was not good enough for them, and ne
ither was Chavez. They are all "problematic." In a world with virtually no left,
the existing left, such as it is, warts and all, is not worth supporting when o
ne can idealistically envision a Platonic left. Go figure. This is a solipsistic
, deeply nihilistic politics of self-absorption. And because they see the proble
m to be an individual one, rather than a systemic one, they call for individual
solutions to the wrong problem -- which clearly will never work. But perhaps tha
t's what these moral geniuses are paid to do: Provide unworkable solutions to fi
ctitious problems. To monkeywrench the resistance. And to do so in a non-holisti
c manner. Ad hoc -- sort of like Bush v. Gore. Remove the monsters one by one an
d stand up in feckless disbelief when they are each replaced in turn with worse
monsters and worse bloodshed. "Don't blame me, I stood up to the monster," they
bleat in astonished sheep-like unison. The feckless left. The non-structural, ma
gical left. What can one expect of a group who supported Obama, because he was m
arketed as "Hope?"
***4
In examining the behavior of the feckless left, it might help to focus in on one
specific example -- in this case, Michael Alpert, not a signatory to this docum
ent, but an intellectual of much the same ilk -- and examine how his behavior du
ring the Libyan intervention mirrors that of the feckless left now. Dr. Alpert,
a former member of SDS, a co-founder of the well known leftist publisher, South
End Press, with a doctorate in economics, is proprietor of the ZNET community, a
well known group who generally consider themselves far-left political radicals
in the Chomskian mold. There is a high representation of young intellectuals. ZN
ET has extensive source material, topical articles, blogs and discussion groups,
like many other sites. In addition to this bread and butter work, Dr. Alpert fa
ncies himself as a political theorist, particularly as the developer of an ideal
istic economic vision called participatory economics or parecon. I have spent a
fair amount of time studying parecon, and related participatory structures, and,
in my opinion, they have a lot to say for themselves in an ideal world.
With that type of background, top-notch intellectual credentials and a life spen
t in radical politics, along with a doctorate in economics, one might expect Dr.
Alpert to understand the processes of globalization. And in theory, he might. B
ut when the rubber hits the road, as it did in with Libya, where I tracked his s
ite closely, he transforms into a card-carrying member of the feckless left.
In other words, he abandoned all pretense of structural analysis. Further, he ab
andoned any accurate historical discourse: The roots of Qaddafi's politics in na
tionalism, pan-africanism and socialism, his accomplishments in 42 years of guid
ing his nation, the war the west has fought against Libya without respite for ov
er 30 years, how his family was bombed and killed, how Libya was falsely blamed
for both the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing and the explosion of Pan Am flight
103 over Lockerbie, how Qaddaffi was finally worn down resisting and began a pro
gram of neo-liberal privatization in a country of vast wealth and resources.
At this point, as I described above, a leader is in a lose-lose position. If he
neo-liberalizes he loses the support of his people, yet it will never be enough
for the globalists. And if he doesn't, his nation is worn down by endless destab
ilization campaigns. Destabilization is almost assured at this point. This is th
e ubiquitous pattern which should be the basis for any thinking persons analysis
of the political situation.
But not for Dr. Alpert, who came down with a bad case of "Rogue's Gallery" syndr
ome. Qaddafi, he declared, based upon unsubstantiated reports in western corpora
te media, was killing his own people. It was a close call, he stated, but like t
he blind umpire, he was assured of getting it wrong. We must support interventio
n. And what was most striking was that his language was almost exactly, to the w
ord, the language the current petitioners employ: The empire is bad and it acts
in "cynical self interest." But in this one case, that cynical self interest mag
ically coincides with the needs of the innocent people to not be slaughtered. So
, in this one case, we should support the empire in stopping the monster, but no
more. We should not support the empire in intervening militarily.
All of which serves to derail any structural analysis of the left in favor of ad
hoc limited complicity based upon a western created crisis designed to appeal t
o the emotions, and to disarm, or at least divide any leftist resistance, which,
as usual, opens the door to western intervention, which magically, never forese
en by the feckless left, always causes more killing and destruction and destabil
ization, which to any sentient being was the point in the first place. Wash, rin
se, repeat.
These are the processes of the feckless left: historically created problem not a
nalyzed, emotional reaction, pre-engineered ad-hoc solution, short-circuiting ra
tional analysis, which are repeated every time. But, to their credit, they alway
s stand firm against the monster du jour.
Here is the Orwellian position of the current petition: "one where states that w
ere allegedly friends of the Arabs such as Russia, China, and Iran have stood in
support of the slaughter of people, while states that never supported democracy
or independence, especially the US and their Gulf allies, have intervened in su
pport of the revolutionaries. They have done so with clear cynical self interest
. In fact, their intervention tried to crush and subvert the uprising, while sel
ling illusions and deceptive lies.
Given that regional and world powers have left the Syrian people alone, we ask y
ou to lend your support to those Syrians still fighting for justice, dignity, an
d freedom, and who have withstood the deafening sounds of the battle, as well as
rejected the illusions sold by the enemies of freedom."
Russia, China and Iran (the bad guys) support the slaughter of people. The US an
d their gulf allies (the good guys, whose very names are carefully omitted as th
ey have no credibility whatsoever) support the revolutionaries (hurray!), but on
ly after trying to crush -- not support -- them. Got it? But the good guys don't
really support the revolutionaries enough because "regional and world powers ha
ve left the Syrian people alone" an Orwellian lie on par with one of Hitler's bi
g lies. And the bad guys are responsible for "the illusions sold by the enemies
of freedom," a line which apparently fell out of a Reagan speech from 1981.
We are never told exactly how supporting leftist revolutionaries falls within th
e cynical self interests of the empire, but by then no one is capable of critica
l thinking anyway.
It is simply impossible to follow this hollywood gobly gook and maintain a ratio
nal, historical, and structural analysis of events.
***5
In a sane world, the left would first provide us with honest analysis: Foreign c
ountries are arming, training, infiltrating and paying for an armed mercenary fo
rce to destabilize Syria. Honest leftists would call for the cutting off of all
support for this foreign destabilization before all else. Until all foreigners a
re removed from the destabilization scene, stopped from blowing up civilians, mo
sques and churches, businesses, the industrial infrastructure of the country, ho
w can anyone, in their right mind, talk of dignity, freedom and democracy? What
world do these signatories live in?
In a sane world, the left would stand against Israel and the US, attacking other
nations unprovoked, dropping depleted uranium on defenseless people to cause in
juries and defects for all of future history, perhaps. In this world, the feckle
ss, magical thinking left, petition against Assad.
Finally, the word "revolution" has been bandied about as a propaganda word, prev
enting meaningful discourse and analysis of the political economic structure of
the nation being analyzed. It has all the meaning of "swish!", "goal!", or "home
run!" these days; it is fashionable. It has become a media term and stripped of
a meaningful descriptive role. And the feckless left promotes this meaningless
glamorization: The wanton destruction of a nation through age-old divide and con
quer tactics has magically morphed into "the revolution in Syria." What is happe
ning in Syria is as much a revolution as the self-serving, sanctimonious, feckle
ss left is a force for good in the world, that is to say zilch.
***6
As far as the Angry Arab goes, the anger over events from his childhood might be
real, but he has generally comes across as a petulant, overstuffed humus eater.
He is not known for presenting any viable analysis of the process of globalizat
ion, and how it effects the Arab world, nor current day real geo-political possi
bilities of resistance in a very bleak era, although to his credit, he is excell
ent at the much easier task of pointing out ever-present political hypocrisy, co
mmentary on long past events and actors, translations of beautiful poetry, and i
ndulging in Utopian dreams. With his position and contacts, it is inconceivable
that his stance could have been anything but willful ignorance over the mercenar
y, mendacious, and intentionally violent and destructive of life forces nature o
f the Takfiri "revolution." His public mea culpa, while laudable in theory, must
be viewed as a rear guard action to preserve any street cred he has left with h
is audience so that he may mislead them again in the future. If he is not a memb
er of the feckless left, he is still a member of the unprogrammatic, magical lef
t.
If you want to be looked at as a leader and teacher of human beings, a credible
human rights advocate or a credible intellectual analyst, you must make the cruc
ial calls correctly when it counts, not two years later. The Angry Arab, by his
conscious actions, has condemned tens of thousands of Syrians of all confessions
to the fate of his own people in Lebanon a generation ago - the crucible which
supposedly formed his moral spine - and that is unforgivable. It is incumbent up
on one to learn the lessons of one's own life. His, albeit small, responsibility
will be on his head forever, and he will never escape the judgment of it by hum
ane people the world over for the rest of his life. He will never be thought of
seriously by any thinking person as a political force for good, a member of a pr
ogrammatic resistance, and his blog will be considered a mere curiosity, querulo
us and quixotic, not deeply insightful or moral, more along the lines of titilla
ting political entertainment, like Jon Stewart. There is a difference being "mis
taken" and refusing to read the accounts and understand the processes (processes
, as I make clear above, which have changed little in intent since time immemori
al and which are repeated quite regularly the world over) which every reader of
this humble blog has been aware of for well over a year. A very big difference.
***7
What can we do? It is incumbent upon us that the list of petitioner's names and
the empty verbiage and puerile analysis should be deconstructed and spread far a
nd wide to discredit these puppets. Their empty program should be exposed for th
e nihilism that it is and replaced with a viable program of education and resist
ance.
As has been well documented, for instance at Landdestroyer, geo-political plans
are devised years, if not decades, into the future. What has been transpiring in
Syria is no surprise to any serious student of geo-politics, and was planned an
d publicized long ago. The feckless left has no excuse for ignorance if they exp
ect to be a geo-political force for good.
What, one may reasonably ask, is to be the role of intellectuals? (No less a lum
inary than Noam Chomsky gained renown addressing this question.) Intellectuals a
re presumably given a voice and widespread exposure and the following and trust
of people as leaders so that they can tell the truth to us while confronting tho
se in power. They should take the time and effort to unravel the tortuous and pu
rposely opaque mechanisms of power and explain the process to us mere mortals in
simple terms which we can understand. One might expect them to elucidate how th
e west and its ZATO and Arab puppets has, over several decades, created a world
of artificial austerity without meaningful work for millions, a network of funda
mentalist schools spitting out nihilistic fanatics devoid of humanism or critica
l thinking, a pipeline of illegal arms, armies of brainwashed mercenaries provid
ed jobs and cult-like group identity, all focused on destroying nation states on
e by one -- Syria being the current focus of destabilization. One might expect t
hem to line out this process to those of us who are burdened by simply getting b
y day-to-day and putting food on our table, a roof over our heads, taking care o
f our cratering health, so that we can understand and follow them. One might, at
the very least, expect them to tell us what Zbigniew Brzezinski (The Grand Ches
sboard) and Wesley Clark (The US will destabilize seven countries...), partisan
political players both, have let on. That is the very least one might expect of
a public intellectual, even if they are a member of the feckless left.
However, in these extremely bleak days it seems the so-called "opposition" is gi
ven voice, funding, positions of authority and following so that the global mafi
a can call in their chits when it really counts. They can lie to us and spin mea
ningless confections of freedom, dignity, and a democratic future for Syria. (Wh
at hopes for freedom, dignity, and a democratic future do the unemployed, the un
deremployed, the great mass of flexible labor have in their own countries these
days?) They can lie to us and turn cause and effect on its head: "the regime has
pushed for the militarization of the Syrian nonviolent movement", and by implic
ation somehow now has responsibility for the completely unmentioned mercenary Ta
kfiri opposition, as if a non-violent movement could be forced into violence --
sell that analysis to real leaders like Gandhi and Martin Luther King, neither a
showboat intellectual.
Real leaders, from Martin Luther King to Hugo Chavez to Gary Webb risked their l
ife to reveal the truth instead of gallivanting with the Rolling Stones, or bein
g feted by some astroturf group, or funded by some globalist foundation or tenur
ed by some pseudo-intellectual organization (university) held afloat by governme
nt and corporate contracts in killingry and global domination. These chickenshit
, pathetic signatories, as well as other well known "leftists" such as Amy Goodm
an, Juan Cole, Josh Landis, Michael Alpert, Stephen Zunes, and others, are case
examples of weak, pathetic traitors to humanity worldwide. They have willfully t
raded honest systematic analysis for emotional string pulling -- only real lives
(not theirs) are involved. Nobody forced these people to become public intellec
tuals; they could be greeters at Walmart nation, like the rest of us shmoos.
Those who consciously through their words and actions seek positions of power an
d privilege within the left are all well aware, as are all activists, union orga
nizers, journalists, etc. of the danger this entails and the courage involved in
being a real leader in a land of the deepest imperial and neoliberal reaction,
while living in countries which make no pretense whatsoever these days of provid
ing for even the most basic welfare of their own people when it stands in opposi
tion to the needs of multi-national capital. Therefore, these house intellectual
s, these whitewashers of extremism, murder and mayhem -- are as guilty as traito
rs, for when the chit from on high gets called in by those who supported their r
ise to prominence, they cravenly put their own safety and privilege over the que
st for intellectual rigor, truth and justice and the trust put in them by people
who only want justice and peace in the world.
Truth is hard-won in times of universal propaganda and deceit, and one must thin
k for oneself, and not blindly follow leftist, or any other, gurus. Rather, one
must ruthlessly tear down, expose and destroy the propagandists, the cloaked aid
ers and abettors of empire. Its the least we can do.