File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1998/marxism-international.9802, message 369


Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 19:48:22 -0500
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com>
Subject: M-I: Re: M-TH: Iraq -- Imperialism has lost the hearts and minds


Hugh Rodwell wrote:

>Doug the Spart-eating Arch-Observer quotes from the NYT front page:
>
>>>From a front-page article in today's New York Times on the Clinton
>>administration's effort to re-take the PR offensive after the Columbus
>>debacle the other day:
>>
>><quote>
>>But the White House did not deploy its "A Team" of event organizers to
>>execute the plan, said another official. "We were in a big league play
>>yesterday, and we should have treated it like a presidential advance," he
>>said. Better advance people, he said, "wouldn't have given tickets to
>>Spartacist League."
>></quote>
>
>Now wouldn't it be great to get just two sentences of substantive comment
>from the man on what he actually thinks of this??

I think the control of opinion-formation in the U.S. is one of the most
efficient and successful enterprises in the history of propaganda. It's
created a largely, but not fully, passive and voiceless population, that
feels powerless to change events. It's created an busily vacuous
intellectual and political culture, a life scripted by publicists. It's a
crime against freedom & thought.

Is that ok now Hugh?

Doug





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