That scummy little film
“Fahrenheit 9/11 … declares that a political economy which creates colossally increasing wealth surrounded by disastrously increasing poverty, needs - in order to survive - a continual war with some invented foreign enemy to maintain its own internal order and security. It requires ceaseless war.
15 years after the fall of communism, a decade after the declared end of history, one of the main theses of Marx’s interpretation of history again becomes a debating point and a possible explanation of the catastrophes being lived.”
John Berger offers another reason why people like Leon Wieseltier don’t like it up ‘em.
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