Re: [OPE] 'conspiracy theory'

From: Paul Zarembka <zarembka@buffalo.edu>
Date: Fri Jan 01 2010 - 12:44:16 EST

Dave,

Why should I be particularly interested in debunking "New World Orders"
and "The Protocols of the Edlers of Zion"? It seems to me that you are
trying to change one question into certain other conspiracy questions
which don't consume my attention but perhaps do consume you.

Surely you don't deny that conspiracies happen? If nothing else check
out Marx's "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte".

In any case, the existence of one conspiracy doesn't prove or disprove
any other conspiracy. It is not all or nothing. There is no broad
brush. There is no "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", "Eighteenth
Brumaire" and "9-11" all together, or none of these three all together.
They are quite separate issues, quite separate, and I'd insist on it.

Paul

> I happen to think that one should debunk myths and fantasies about
> 'New World Orders' and other variants in the genre pioneered by 'The
> Protocols of the Elders of Zion'. One cannot counter them by some
> 'left-wing' variation of the theme. This has to be done by
> popularizing research within popular Left organizations on the
> economic classes, political forces and ideological struggles that
> change societies.
>
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