Re: Neo-liberalism

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From: Andrew Wayne Austin <aaustin@utkux.utcc.utk.edu>
To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 3:14 AM
Subject: Re: Neo-liberalism


> On Wed, 3 May 2000, Cedric Beidatsch wrote:
>
> >Left to their own devices I just don't see the evidence for widespread
> >ordinary human brutality - brutalisation and participation yes, but the
> >organising and initiating has always come about as a function of
> >government policy.
>
> In Eastern Europe (for example in Latvia), as soon as Nazi disabled the
> local police, citizens began beating Jews to death with sticks and their
> bare hands.
>
> Andrew Austin
> Knoxville, TN
>
I don't think these massacres were totally spontaneous. Who armed,
encouraged and transported the perpetrators? Apparent anti semitic
spontaneity was welcome to the nazis, but they loaded and pointed the gun
and let others pull the trigger.

Cedric Beidatsch
Perth Western Australia