Recently, Alexander Cockburn declared a ceasefire in his ongoing war against “green fascism” long enough to write something that oughta be translated into a hundred languages and leafleted from planes:

These days a dwindling number of leftists learn their political economy from Marx. Into the theoretical and strategic void has crept a diffuse, peripatic conspiracist view of the world that tends to locate ruling class devilry not in the crises of capital accumulation, or the falling rate of profit, or inter-imperial competition, but in locale (the Bohemian Grove, Bilderberg, Ditchley, Davos) or supposedly “rogue” agencies, with the CIA still at the head of the list. The 9/11 “conspiracy”, or “inside job”, is the Summa of all this foolishness.

Late Cockburn’s regular audience, busy, in Bhaskar Sunkara’s words, “crawling around the Ozarks using a picture of Janet Reno for target practice,” didn’t know what the fuck he was talking about.