Letters to the Editor

• Re: minor wars of aggression, neo-colonialism and neo-imperialism

  [Read the article: The Republican Party is the party of Bush]
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  The collapse of the Soviet Union has led to this ridiculous -- and very dangerous -- situation, so I blame Gorbachev, cause if he hadn't opened things up in the Soviet Empire, this mess never would have happened. Then I blame Reagan for jettisoning the whole idea of Public Interest (following in the footsteps of his idol Margaret Thatcher) and undoing a couple of centuries of American progress.

  It wasn't just the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was the collapse of Communism as a viable political, economic and governmental structure. True, it never was all it was cracked up to be, even when it was at the height of its power, but the Threat of Communism was enough, it seems, to keep the worst instincts of the Corporate/Fascist overlords at bay.

  After WWII, they were so fearful of being shamed in the eyes of the public, and so frightened that the People would rise up... Now they simply don't care. They have no shame, whatsoever, they are entirely amoral, and they couldn't care less whether the People "rise" or take to the streets or what have you. If they dare, the Corporatist/Fascists will simply have them shot down and everyone will just go on about their business as if nothing happened.

  And their little wars of aggression (yes, Iraq is a Little War), their focus on seizing and holding resources and battering the Natives into submission, their territorial expansionist objectives are all right out of the pre-1914 playbook of How Great Nations Should Behave. The collapse of the Soviet Union and Communism has meant that the Powers That Be have reverted to a Pre-1914 mindset, and that they behave as if nothing happened after 1917.

  The rest of creation isn't sufficiently organized or ideologically motivated enough to do anything about it, any more than anyone could prevent or even interfere with the Euro-American wars of aggression, colonialism and imperialism of the previous centuries.

  Maybe it's genetic.

  The point is, without a comprehensive ideological and organizational framework within which to struggle against these massive forces of reversion, we will be dragged back into the darkness.

  Libertarianism is not that ideological or organizational framework.

  Yet neither side of our two party system is offering any resistance to reversion.

  Permalink Friday, June 8, 2007 06:45 AM