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Stories from 2003-02-01

Acting Alone

David Bromwich | Dissent Magazine | February 1, 2003

"Unilateralism is a weak name for the foreign policy sketched in 'The National Security Strategy of the United States of America.' The strong name for it is imperialism. We will be hearing more about that as Europeans come to assess the actions of the Bush administration in the light of this thirty-one-page manifesto. Practical wisdom in the face of terror comes to be identified with the always apposite words of a single man." [more]

Anarchism and the Argentine Labor Movement

Fernando Lopez | New Formulation | February 1, 2003

"In other words, the struggle that aims to transcend capitalism actually improves it. And it is this tendency that obliges the most lucid members of the ruling class to give ground to the workers in order not to lose everything. ... Democratization and integration—we would add—are not irreversible processes, as demonstrated by the social disintegration and marginalization that has occurred in Argentina over the last twenty years." [more]

Anti-Anti-Americanism

Todd Gitlin | Dissent Magazine | February 1, 2003

"Anti-Americanism is an emotion masquerading as an analysis, a morality, an ideal, even an idea about what to do. When hatred of foreign policies ignites into hatred of an entire people and their civilization, then thinking is dead and demonology lives. When complexity of thought devolves into caricature, intellect is close to reconciling itself to mass murder." [more]

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