Abstract Metadata References Metrics. Access options Get access to the full article by using one of the access options below. Buy instant access PDF download and unlimited online access :. Add to Cart. Other access options. Personal login Log in with your brill. Export References. Lee Carol E. Abstract Metadata. Content Metrics. Sign in to annotate. Delete Cancel Save. Cancel Save.
View Expanded. View Table. View Full Size. Corporate Social Responsibility. Mission Statement. Corporate Governance. Stay Updated. Rights and Permissions. Email Newsletter Sign-up Page. Imprints and Trademarks. Offices Worldwide. In every instance or place, whether at home or abroad, whether in Libya or California or Wisconsin or Greece, the thrust of the relentless global class war is the same: to do away with subsistence-level guarantees, or social safety net programs, and redistribute the national or global resources in favour of the rich and powerful, especially the powerful interests vested in the finance capital and the military capital.
There is no question that global capitalism has thus woven together the fates and fortunes of the overwhelming majority of the world population in an increasingly intensifying struggle for subsistence and survival. No one can tell when this majority of the world population the middle, lower-middle, poor and working classes would come to the realisation that their seemingly separate struggles for economic survival are essentially part and parcel of the same struggle against the same class enemies, the guardians of world capitalism.
One thing is clear, however: only when they come to such a liberating realisation, join forces together in a cross-border, global uprising against the forces of world capitalism, and seek to manage their economies independent of profitability imperatives of capitalist production - only then can they break free from the shackles of capitalism and control their future in a coordinated, people-centered mode of production, distribution and consumption.
Skip to main content. Why Regime Change in Libya? BRQ Network. Ismael Hossein-Zadeh. Jun 23, Log in or register to post comments reads. Discussion Forum. Africa in 50 years.. Subscribe for Free! Travel ban? You really are nuts. He can barely travel from one basement to another. Comment by Karl Friedrich — June 19, pm. Yes, they apparently do not edit anything. I once read an article by Gary Leupp whose articles I usually like where instead of Hugo Chavez, he wrote Cesar Chavez, along with some other typos that actually made some of the sentences incomprehensible or gave a meaning that was entirely opposite of what he was obviously trying to convey.
I sent Leupp an e-mail pointing out the mistakes, to which he responded, but later I saw that the only correction that was made was the Chavez one, leaving all the confusing sentences unaltered. Leupp mentioned in his reply that CP only has one overworked staffer putting the stuff up. Maybe they should jump aboard the intern-slave ship of Corporate America…. Comment by dermokrat — June 19, pm. LarryE raises a good point in 8.
He hatched from an egg that way. Comment by Stuart Newman — June 19, pm. Thanks to LP for his thoughtful and critical approach to the LIbya situation. Cutting to the alleged front-line reporting a few weeks later. I see the usual disorderly gang of men of all ages in street clothing, with helmets and bandoliers ad lib. Nary a neatly pressed uniform anywhere in sight. What for? It may be that the attention of the Left now is too focused on the war against Qaddafi and the bombing bad as that seems to be , with the assumption that this phase of the conflict itself will be the thing that grinds on in the news year after year.
In Afghanistan initially the U. One seems to get only glimpses. Comment by Rod Random — June 19, pm. Being occupied with the latest issue of Swans I did not have the time to do my due diligence and research about the poster. I also did not fathom why such an accusation would be posted on a thread about Libya. I did respond, however — even if very quickly.
To be accused of racism in public is not a matter to be ignored…. For over 15 years, I have published pieces by authors with different skin pigmentation, nationality, religious or non-religious backgrounds, and differing political ideologies. When I want a Marxist analysis, I ask Lou to provide it.
He is much more knowledgeable than I am. Revolution, to me, means that what goes down comes back to the top. People and comrades can disagree with me. That is fine, and a part of the human discourse. Question my intellect IQ measured in the early s but well diminished nowadays by the loss of brain cells and too much boozing. But do not ever question my integrity! More excellent work exposing the apologists for Gadaffi Louis. They have turned the Stalinist opposition to the theory of permanent revolution into a systematic ratlionalisation of treachery tieing the working class of the semi-colonial world to not just the stunted and treacherous national bourgeoisies but the most disgusting remnants of the feudal order.
It fits with their Cold War thinking and uncritical attitude to the peaceful co-existers. Here is a comment made in the light of the death of the two families killed by NATO in Tripoli this weekend:.
It was absolutely right for the world to demand the UN step in to protect civilians from a murderous tyrant like Gadaffi though of course he is not the only one killing civilians at the moment. Bombing Tripoli, killing civilians in the name of externally imposed regime change means that the people of Tripoli cannot concentrate on the immediate task of ridding themselves of Gaddafi but must start to think about defending their city from NATO itself.
Comment by David Ellis — June 20, am. Louis, you have to admit that in spite of his collaborationism with the empire, Gazzafi was never an ideal US ally or satelite. I recall a speech he made to the Arab league I think around , where he condemned the invasion of Iraq and removal of Saddam Hussein.
Well, they have, Gazzafi and Assad are both targets now. This is not to defend him and Assad, far from it. As well, this is to some extent perhaps exorcising the ghosts of Iraq which is tainted with lies and fabrications and what have you.
This is the good war, the just war, perhaps a dress rehearsal for action against Iran. I think the so-called world ask accountability from the likes of Gazzafi but not just him and Assad. What about occupation of Bahrain by the Saudi army or massacres in Yemen? Why is the UN setting up a commission to look into that? Why this focus on Libya?
What are the facts and what are the fictions? Imagine soldiers going around with permanent hard-ons!!! Comment by Mazdak — June 20, pm. Qaddafi had no allies in the Middle East, unlike Syria.
In any case, as long as people write bullshit, I will exercise my right to refute it. I intended to keep at this until people stop writing bullshit so everybody should get used to it. Comment by louisproyect — June 20, pm.
By all means, Louis, expose the bullshit; my own blood boils when nonsense is being written about Ahmadinejad, the great anti-imperialist. Comment by Stuart Newman — June 20, pm. What do you mean by piling on?
I am virtually the only person on the left who is bothering to answer the bullshit that people like Hossein-Zadeh are writing. Comment by ish — June 21, am. Comment by jp — June 21, pm. Comment by Red Cloud — June 21, pm. Proyect gives support to his own imperialist ruling class and its assault on a neo-colonial country.
Barts, the ritziest resort in the Caribbeans. Now I am certainly no Trotsky, but I can recognize bullshit when I hear it, especially from the trolling Red Cloud, a member of the Spartacist League who was expelled for stealing money from the group to pay his gambling debts.
Comment by louisproyect — June 21, pm. Whether or not you are a Trotsky is less important than whether Qaddafi is a Stalin. Surely you are not claiming this despite the Beyonce incident? Comment by Stuart Newman — June 22, am. The latter came to power, like Stalin, from a revolution that flowed from the bottom up, not the top down.
Perhaps Proyect could clarify where he stood in regards to all the aforementioned incidents and then clarify how the compare to the incidents of today? The single individual whose ideology most impacted the global political outcomes of the last years is still V.
Nobody disputes that. What is in dispute although not by me is the idea that Trotsky was the logical continuation of Lenin. This charge of an orchestrated future campaign of rapes was made at a major press conference called by the lead prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on June 8, The even wilder unsubstantiated ICC charge that Libya plans to mass distribute Viagra to its troops confirms this as the most tawdry and threadbare form of war propaganda.
It is important to understand that NATO countries with the full complicity of the corporate media and the ICC are spreading this Big Lie in order to win support for and close down all opposition to a ground assault of Libya, something that would otherwise be unpopular both in Europe and the United States. This wild charge adds to the evidence of a massive escalation in bombing urban targets in Libya, the use of British and French helicopters that give close support to ground troops and the positioning in the Mediterranean off Libya of U.
The charge of rape as a political weapon was spread — without evidence — against Serb forces to justify U. The rape charge was used to soften up the U. Now a similar plan is in the works for Libya. All too often widely fabricated lies are spread to justify imperialist wars. In the first war against Iraq was justified by outrageous charges that the Iraqi army had grabbed Kuwaiti babies from incubators and smashed the babies to the floor. Congress and in the UN. Months later it was confirmed as a total fabrication.
But the lie had served its purpose. In the corporate media and U.
0コメント