Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 18:02:04 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Handelman <mhandelman1-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: AUT: Left myopia towards the UN....


I was at an anti-war roundtable, and I was seriously
pissed with the Left myopia towards the UN (eg
strengthening International law, creation of an
International Criminal Court) (to be fair, the people
who were putting it on was the Law Department at my
university, so they probably do have an overly
uncritical view of things like "International Law"
etc. Afterall, it's kind of hard to teach law, when
you believe that all legal systems are designed to
protect the priviledged.)

But my question is this, is the "left myopia" towards
the UN a comparatively recently phenomenon? Did the
60s New Left adopt this type of acceptance of the UN,
not realizing it as an instrument of capitalist
planning? (I know that the 60s New Left was myopic
towards "nationalist anti-imperialist" regimes, but
what about towards the UN?)

If this myopia towards the UN is comparatively recent,
does it reflect the retreat to the political centre,
among much of the left?

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