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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11?

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To: sea_urchin who wrote (9294)	12/15/2004 3:51:32 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) of 20039

Re: The world has changed and I must change with it. Indeed... Democracy reels in agony. We have surreptitiously entered a new Dark Age... Forget about the "clash of civilizations" --we're adrift in a clash of barbarisms.... Gus Gilbert Achcar Interviewed by David Barsamian Gilbert Achcar lived in Lebanon for many years before moving to France where he teaches politics and international relations at the University of Paris. He's a frequent contributor to Le Monde Diplomatique and is the author of several books on contemporary politics. His latest book, published by Monthly Review Press, is The Clash of Barbarisms: September 11 and the Making of the New World Disorder. D.B.: The title of your book is interesting because there is a well-known book published by Harvard University Professor Samuel Huntington entitled The Clash of Civilizations. What do you mean by “the clash of barbarisms?” A.C.: I mean that in a certain sense civilizations could not clash. The process of civilization is described as a historical process of pacification of human relations, overcoming aggressiveness and the rule of law. And what we are seeing in this kind of clash is not, therefore, a clash of civilizations or features of civilizations clashing, but a clash of those kinds of barbaric potentials that every civilization include, whether Islamic or Western. These are barbarian forms which are potentially included in every kind of civilization and which can take over in periods of crisis or some specific historical periods. [...] monthlyreview.org

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