[Marxism] [lbo-talk] Empty and meretricious

[Shane Mage]

On Jan 20, 2009, at 1:52 PM, I wrote:
> Obama  lauded those who fought at "Concord and Normandy and  
> Khesan."  Not a word, of course, about the thousands of African- 
> American slaves who threw off their chains to fight and die against  
> the revered slavedriving Founding Fathers...

Quoting from memory, I forgot that Obama included *Gettysburg* in that  
list.
I should have included mention that the "Americans" who fought there  
wore Grey as well as Blue, and called for a parallel to Fort Pillow.   
Nathan Bedford Forrest, who should have been hanged a hundred times  
over, was amnestied just like Bush (de facto) will be, and he went  
free to found the KKK.


> ...and for the legitimate government of their country.  Nor, of  
> course, a rhetorical parallel of Normandy and Tokyo or of Khesan and  
> Mylai-- even though the soldiers perpetrating those genocidal  
> massacres were no different--and perhaps were even the same persons-- 
> as those who fought at Normandy and Khesan...


Shane Mage

> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos