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class antagonism towards Western imperial- overwhelming white apartheid FDNY, since ism among Muslim local capitalists in many elite blue-collar jobs are usually reserved countries, who see no advantage to their own for white men). It doesn t make the pure class in having the big multinational cor- human tragedy any less, but these are the porations take over even the small corners very people who could care less then or now of the Third World. And modern society in about the suffering and tragedy of the women the Muslim world keeps turning out large of Afghanistan. As the Sixties saying goes, numbers of declassed, educated young men who What goes around comes around. have no prospects in their poverty-stricken countries. The c.i.a. was surprised at the That s why more than a few people in the World Trade attack, since their terrorist world have conflicted feelings about what suicide bomber profile predicted 19 year happened. The World Trade Center, the old men who were illiterate and poor while tallest buildings in America, was built to the actual hijackers were educated, multi- be the active nerve center and symbol of ARA Research Bulletin " Issue #2 " Fall 2001 17 White America s financial power over the can stage lumpen-capitalist revolutions and human race. The builders even said something take state power themselves. Of course, like that. A financial equivalent to the that s something multinational capitalism military s Pentagon. If this stands for a could live with here and there, eventually supercapitalism that has guided and arranged making peace just like it s gradually doing the impoverishment, mass killings, bomb- with Iran. ings, torture and repression all over the world (with complaisant u.s. public approval As for not having terrorist attacks in the and indifference), is it so surprising that u.s., the genie is way out of the bottle. many said It s time they got some of what Who would have thought some years ago that they inflict on others! ? a Jewish day care center for four year-olds in Los Angeles would get shot up? Nope, the Perhaps the conflicted feelings are most decaying capitalist world has gone postal. sharply evident in the Black community. We all know it, too. The question is what Eyebrows were raised at a recent Gallop poll will replace the old world? where 71% of Black people polled favored special more intense security checks for Q . W h a t d o y o u t h i n k o f t h i s c o m i n g w a r ? Arab Americans at airports. At the grass- Q. What do you think of this coming war? roots, the Black Nation is very pro law & order (most are for the death penalty, stop- A. Obviously, there s lots we ordinary and-frisk, harsher sentencing, the whole people don t know and lots that will sur- nine yards). Understandable for people who prise us. I don t think this war is bear the brunt of the mass violent crime and inevitably going to be what people fear or addiction that capitalism creates. At the expect. Sure the u.s. government will go same time, more than a few felt that what after al-Qaeda, try to make an example of happened was an inevitable lesson for White them. Which may work or not. But this fight America. Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary with pan-Islamic fascism is a family feud Mitchell recently repeated what a caller within capitalism, after all. Western impe- told her. This Black woman said that while rialism is more accustomed to covertly ally- she felt compassion for the suffering fami- ing with or tolerating these terrorist lies, she didn t feel that the attack had groups (like the c.i.a. and it s u.s. pro- anything to do with her. teges Omega 7 and Jewish Defense League , who were killing people in bombings while It was like I wanted to say, I told you being protected by Washington). Don t be so , she said. Now they want us to unite, surprised to find out later that Washington but so many things happened to me growing up has made secret deals with various Islamic in the South. I can t seem to feel like it fascisms. is my problem. I think a lot of us feel like that. Complex feelings for a complex sit- One thing is really important. The clash uation, because it s not the simple tragedy between these conflicting capitalistic that the capitalist media has been promot- forces -each of whom has a track record of ing. slaughtering people like you d light up a cigarette -underlines how essential it is And as for what the Islamic fascists want, that we fight for liberated space for every- it s very simple -they want Western imperi- one, mentally and physically. alism out of the Muslim world so that they can take over. No troops in Saudi bases, no I say this because there s a lot of F-16s for Israel, no air raids on Arab capi- hypocrisy going around about the women of [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] |