Imperialism and the "Anti-Imperialism of the Fools"
Submitted on January 2, 2012
By James Petras - Dissident Voice
The official spokespeople of empire publicize real and fabricated atrocities of their imperial rivals, and highlight the plight of the colonized victims. The corporate elite and the hard-line militarists demand military action to protect property, or to seize strategic resources...Sectors of the Left join the chorus and...plead for the imperial powers to “arm the people to liberate themselves”...By lending moral support and a veneer of respectability to the imperial war...the progressives become the prototype of the “anti-imperialism of the fools”.
