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Explaining September 11

Studies in Political Economy

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Title Explaining September 11
 
Creator Wood, Ellen Meiksins
 
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Description Few on the Left will have missed the symbolic dimension of those terrible events: the perpetrators chose to attack key symbols of American capitalism's economic dominion and military might. This is not accidental, as both Leo Panitch and Ellen Wood stress. Islamic and other fundamentalisms have stepped into the vacuum created by the defeat of the old Left and the US-backed crushing of secular nationalist opponents of corrupt regimes. And the very fact that the Left and the attackers appear to have common enemies is helping to justify the imposition of stringent "anti-terrorist" legislation across the West threatening opposition to imperialist globalization at home and abroad.
 
Publisher Studies in Political Economy
 
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Date 2010-05-25
 
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://spe.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/spe/article/view/6042
 
Source Studies in Political Economy; Vol 67 (2002): The Politics of Protest
1918-7033
0707-8552
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://spe.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/spe/article/view/6042/2977
 
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