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NEWS & LETTERS, May 2002
New!
Confronting Permanent War &
Terrorism: Why the Anti-War Movement Needs a Dialectical Perspective A statement from the Resident
Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees. The full text of this important
challenge to today's movement against the permanent war drive of the Bush
administration is available from News & Letters, in
print or online. Excerpts from the statement: "Any doubts that George W.
Bush is determined to plunge the U.S. into a permanent war was dispelled by his
State of the Union speech of Jan. 29, which posed an 'axis of evil' of Iraq,
Iran, and North Korea as potential targets of U.S. military intervention. A
chilling indication of how far Bush is willing to take this militarism was the
Pentagon report leaked in March that calls for developing new nuclear weapons
for use against North Korea, Iraq, Syria, Libya and even Iran... "Today's situation calls
upon us to renew anti-war activism by developing a total view which expresses
not only what we are against, but what we are for. Never has it become more
important to connect political action with the development of a philosophy of
human liberation... "Today's realities call not only for a political response, not only movements and rallies of solidarity and protest, but also the rethinking and the concretization for today of the dialectical perspectives of Hegel, Marx, and Marxist-Humanism. Such a movement from theory has a life and death importance because it can aid us in finding a way ahead in a situation where the pathway forward is far from clear." |
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