Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes
In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner. The Anarchy of the Imagination: Interviews, Essays, Notes, edited by Michael Töteberg, translated by Krishna Winston, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
Facebook was the most aggressive of the Social Media Web companies at the time in censoring any material that glorified terrorism or terrorist organizations. The problem of course, was the First Amendment rights of the web users to publish and read what they choose. But private firms are not covered by the Bill of Rights—only the government. See {583142} for the message some authorities believed was being transmitted.
Despite the fact that many Americans saw communists and socialists as of the same ilk, socialists were very suspicious of communists—especially the “party discipline” and the lack of individual freedom, while the communists saw the socialists as just another form of fascism and attacked it violently. Later, the party line against socialists softened as Cold War communist strategy solicited assistance from the socialist, unaligned nations.
This statement is quoted by many critics of the agency who ask if the threat is so easy and ubiquitous, why have there been so few attacks?
This quotation is often cited as it presages the concept of the Military Industrial Complex that was given by President Eisenhower in 1961--{641114}. It is not known whether Eisenhower had read or was briefed on this Mills quotation.
This memo was sent before he was nominated as a Supreme Court Justice. The Senate did not know of this memo at the time he was ratified. Powell saw every serious critic of the American Economy or the existing government policies as “attacking” the American Free Enterprise System. Surprisingly, he thought that business executives were rather helpless when it came to supporting the status quo.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, sometimes credited as R. W. Fassbinder, was a German filmmaker, actor, playwright, theatre director, composer, editor, and essayist. He is widely regarded as a prominent figure and catalyst of the New German Cinema movement.
