Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:11:11 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re: AUT: Putting Negri to the Test (My Response)


 
> do you honestly believe that the "us" had to
> "armtwist" anyone? 

You might want to have a look at an article by James
Heartfield, a British Marxist who writes sometimes for
revolution magazine, which tried to describe the very
different games being played as the US built its
coalition:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/revo-readers/message/1424

Once the Europeans found they could not drag the Yanks
into an 'international diplomatic process' they began
to chafe, and dig up issues like Palestine, the Cuba
POWs and now the 'Axis of Evil'. See
http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,645000,00.html
for the latest point of difference.

I'm not arguing that the Europeans and the US are now
split into warring and irreconciliable camps - this
isn't a necessary condition for imperialist rivalry. I
do think, though, that it is reasonable to predict
military antagonism between the two blocs in the
future.

I guess, if challenged over the now-obvious splits
between the Europeans and the US, Negri and Hardt
would excuse them as being the product of European
politicians, not European capital. 
So much for materialism... 


most of the prime beneficiaries seem to be
> non-u.s. ... so for whom was this war being fought?

Who would these be? Surely not the Europeans, Russians
or Chinese (they are losing their influence in Central
Asia), nor any oil-producing Arab state (they face
having their stranglehold over US oil imports broken
by the opening of access to new deposits in Central
Asia and a US-controlled pipeline through
Afghanistan)? Who then?

Cheers
Scott  

 

====For "a ruthless criticism of every existing idea":
THR-AT-LL, NZ's class struggle anarchist paper http://www.freespeech.org/thrall/
THIRD EYE, a Kiwi lib left project, at http://www.geocities.com/the_third_eye_website/
and 'REVOLUTION' magazine, a Frankfurt-Christchurch production, http://cantua.canterbury.ac.nz/%7Ejho32/

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