What is the new international communist conspiracy? The old one was a figment of the malicious minds of Western powers whose grossest imperial impulses had been tamed with revolution movements all over the colonial world: the Western powers' answer to this insurgence was to sloppily link each and every one to the Soviet Menace, the Red Scare.
Just so, everything from Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam to Maurice Bishop in Grenada to Cheddi Jagan in British Guyana, to India, Angola, Ethiopia, Nelson Mandela ... practically every labelled terrorist and rogue state of the Cold War was a movement to divorce itself from the clutches of the former empire. And they were all apparently guided by Moscow and the international communist conspiracy.
We knew then it wasn't true, and it has only recently become permissible to say as much among the ruling circles.
But old habits are hard to break, especially if you are one of the last Confederate soldiers, a Frenchman who still claims Algeria is part of France, persons for whom Rule of Law means British Rule, even if it extends to the Malvinas Islands, or the present-day Western powers.
Today, we have a concoction called Al-Qaeda, a nonsense that purports to link every half-wit incendiary maker, upper-educated dreamer, chattering class officianado, or malicious attempt to some central casting office in the caves of Afghanistan.
To look at the list, this is equally true of any profession, from teacher to lawyer to doctor to president of the United States. We in the proofessional classes have not had any more luck than the fictitious al-Quaeda to attract the best of the best: whatever that means. But we aren't stupid enough to link all attempts to political or professional office to some global conspiracy.
Why then this al-Quaeda?
Why international communism except that it keeps our cities in disrepair, workers barely meeting ends, schools in a shambles, and the police state inevitable, if not more prisons. Meanwhile, our common wealth remains privatized, irritating among other things not only the housing crisis in foreclosures but also the homeless crisis on the streets (note how this had become a norm and not a headline in the last generation).
To rob us, our masters have created a new enemy, a new Cold War, and a rationale to oppress us, which is the only way we will submit en masse to the pirates.
Reporter Helen Thomas distinguished herself at a recent press conference by persisting to ask "Why?" I couldn't understand the vapid reply, but to borrow the commentary of another activist:why is because the US has made the Taliban look like Day-Care Center workers.
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