Saturday, March 7, 2009

terrorists by any other name-

in the 19c they had the luxury of calling themselves- anarchists, socialists etc-broadly, the "working classes", affiliated to it. if you were frustrated in the bureaucrazy stircrazy, pre eminently the military, you became "right" wing. the 3rd world contribution was "nationalism"; but nationalism by any other name... every cause, barring a gandhiism (an exceptional case/country) spills much blood & ink. now too, stir the pot, terrorists are, arguably, morally uncomfortably, repudiably, forces for 'anarchy" (confused, though it sometimes coincides with "social justice" rhetoric) sometimes preferable (i.e, historically more plausible) than tyranny/feeling of extreme poverty of power, which anger, stirring the pot, makes it part coincide with the social justice- any cause large enough, & perhaps violent enough, has both social justice & its opposite, this capitalist need to keep the wheels of history racing-

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