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From: DAKLAR-AT-pseud.pseud
Subject: M-INTRO: Attack on America
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 17:13:16 -0700


	With the events of Tuesday in mind and the fact that I am taking
Professor Hans Ehrbar's Marxian economics class at the University of Utah. I
can't help but wonder what Karl Marx would have said about the attacks on
the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Would he have said like Saddam
Hussein, "The American cowboys are reaping the fruit of their crimes against
humanity." The attacks were focused after all on one of the greatest symbols
of American capitalism and the center of American military might. Were these
attacks a result of the exploitative nature of capitalism on the rest of the
world? Would Marx approve of this direct attack on capitalism in hopes that
it would start the revolution to over throw capitalistic oppression and set
up a perfect communist world? I don't know how exactly to reconcile this but
I do feel we as a country should be held partially responsible for what
happened. 
	We have been bombing the Middle East for years over Oil. Oil of all
things. If it weren't for the industrial revolution and our selfish desires
to produce and get gain at all costs maybe this wouldn't have happened. I
don't feel the defense of democracy, which is  the excuse we have used for
years to justify our attacks on the Middle East, has been extremely valid.
It isn't as though the Middle East is really big enough to pose a real
threat to our military might. To paraphrase what Hans sent to the class
today, maybe we should think of how many people die everyday because of
capitalist exploitation before we try to get revenge for an insignificant
20,000 or so that will be lost as casualties of this tragedy. I don't want
to sound anti-American or supportive of terrorism. I love my country but I
think that before we "find out who did this and go after the bastards" as
our beloved Senator Orrin Hatch so eloquently put it, we better think long
and hard about why this happened and how we can change so that it won't
happen again. Not what we can change or how we can protect ourselves better
or how we can make our airports more secure before allowing flights to run
again, but how we can treat human beings in this world better. I would
appreciate any comments or thoughts that anybody would like to express in
response to anything I have mentioned. 
	These are only things I have been thinking about and not necessarily
all my own personal beliefs. More than anything I would like to know how a
Marxist views this situation and what a Marxist thinks of how the United
States is handling the situation.         


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