By Winter Patriot on 9/5/2005, 2:45pm PT  

Guest blogged by Winter Patriot

I've been reading Stan Goff now and then, but not regularly. My bad. I was forcefully reminded of this when a friend sent me an excerpt from The Butterfly Effect --- Katrina and Occupation. In my humble view it's monsterpiece, and I recommend it most heartily.

Here's a quick teaser:

The reaction of the US government to Katrina is as ugly a picture as you might want of capitalism, and make no doubt that this response is a capitalist response. You're on your own... if you're poor, too fucking bad.
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It's all out in the open now, exposed like an open wound. The Gulf of Mexico meets the Persian Gulf... meets the gulf between Black and white, between poor and rich. The misery of Katrina's refugees is just the culmination of the violence and misery of poverty, of being a colonized nation... an exclamation point to punctuate the system.

Is this the threshhold? Is this when someone says it is intolerable? Is this when we become the Haitian National Popular Party, the Iraqi Patriotic Alliance, the indigenous rebellions in Latin America? Time will tell.

Please read this essay. And then, if you have any words left at all, you are more than welcome to share them with us here.

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