[Peace-discuss] Blair To Brown - The Killing Will Continue

[C. G. Estabrook]

Morton K. Brussel wrote:
> I'm sending tooo much it seems, but this piece from Media Lens tells
> what's up in the UK ... This comes from
> http://www.medialens.org/alerts/index.php entitled: *From Blair To
> Brown - The Killing Will Continue*

It's vital, though, in exposing the fraud of Clinton-Blair "humanitarian 
war."

The paragraph you quote from anarchist writer Rudolf Rocker --

"We speak of national interests, national capital, national spheres of 
interest, national honour, and national spirit; but we forget that 
behind all this there are hidden merely the selfish interests of 
power-loving politicians and money-loving business men for whom the 
nation is a convenient cover to hide their personal greed and their 
schemes for political power from the eyes of the world."

-- incidentally makes clear why libertarians and the anarchist left are 
opposed to one another.

Anarchism is left-wing socialism (as Rocker says elsewhere, "All 
anarchists are socialists, but not all socialists are anarchists"), and 
socialism is that critique of capitalism that demands an economy based 
on production for use rather than production for profit.  Anarchists add 
that production must be under democratic control.

Modern American Libertarianism, although it's verbally consistent with 
Enlightenment Liberalism in asserting the essential need for freedom to 
  human nature ("liber" is Latin for "free"), errs by asserting that 
that freedom must also belong to "legal persons" -- corporations.  They 
don't seem to notice that freedom for concentrations of money is 
precisely what takes away freedom from real persons, who have to sell 
what makes them human, their work of head and hands, to those 
concentrations of money in order to eat regularly.

Anarchists, at the other extreme of the political spectrum, want to 
establish that freedom for real persons, and that means bringing 
concentrations of money under democratic control. Otherwise the "free 
economy" merely presents "the selfish interests of power-loving 
politicians and money-loving business men for whom the nation is a 
convenient cover to hide their personal greed and their schemes for 
political power from the eyes of the world."  --CGE