SIMON LINCOLN READER: White monopoly capital is Zuma weapon
In the late 1990s, a group of men gathered in Washington, DC. All were proponents of a reactionary ideology born of frustration at the US’s perceived loss of influence in the world. Together, they would establish one of the most destructive forces to feature in politics yet — an extension of neoconservatism designed to simplify complicated multi-dimensional regional and religious issues into a contest of righteous versus evil between Muslims and non-Muslims. Their timing was fortuitous. After a contentious election victory and the 9/11 attacks, President George W Bush attempted to administer the US in the manner of a nervous farmer and, in his clumsiness, he allowed the same group of people to surround him and pursue their own definition of "moral clarity". While their hostility was appealing to quarters of the American electorate, this group discovered that aggression wasn’t all that contagious — the long memories of many Americans, from Vietnam to Somalia, had formed a suspicion o...
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