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...Cessna's single engine could not have failed over a worse patch of Colombian jungle. On Feb. 13, 2003, four U.S. defense contractors and a Colombian police officer, on a routine surveillance flight looking for rural cocaine laboratories, made an emergency landing in southern Colombia. The area is a stronghold of the fierce Marxist guerrillas known as the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, or FARC. Rebel soldiers swarmed over the shattered plane, shooting and killing its U.S. pilot, Thomas Janis, and the Colombian officer, Luis Cruz. They stripped the remaining Americans -Keith Stansell, Thomas Howes and Marc Gonsalves - of their clothes...
...Idiocy” or “idiots” for Marx are not defined simply by levels of intelligence. They are descriptive terms that refer to the apolitical nature of rural people. Industrialization excited Marx because he believed that capitalism could be overthrown only through a consolidation of people in cities; then the masses could achieve political power, instead of remaining isolated in their previously family-centric, “private” lives...
...Many people have defended Obama better than I can here, so I’ll be brief: What Obama was (maybe) getting at in his comments was what Marx called the idiocy of rural life—a much abused phrase, one that conservatives such as Kristol love to cite...
...Whether people in rural Pennsylvania are “apolitical” or not, whether they foolishly vote against their economic interests or not, are huge issues that Obama and the nation should confront. But what interests me more about Marx’s conception of idiocy is its applicability to life here at Harvard: Maybe “Idiots on the Charles” is a better nickname for 21st century Cambridge than “Kremlin...
...activist in Selma, Ala., after McCain spoke there. In Inez, Ky., a registered Democrat named Debbie Blevias said she worried that McCain "is going to be for the richer people." When asked what she wanted to hear from Washington politicians, she said, "They could help send money into these rural areas...