This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.
Maoist Internationalist Movement

This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.

A crazy idea:

Send all the youth to college, Iraq's and Afghanistan's too

See our Iraq web page

OK, Amerikkka, you did not listen to us. We told you before the war that we knew you wanted their oil, so we told you to offer Iraq a bribe to become the 51st state. We'd have suggested $10,000 per persyn to vote for statehood. That would have been a paltry $270 billion, less than half of Pentagon expenses for a year. That was before the war, and you still are not getting anywhere and you really want the Iraqis to take up Amerikan culture bad, so now we have another idea for you.

To send everyone in Afghanistan from age 18 to 24 to college would involve about 3 million students in a country of 31 million.(1) Just for the heck of it, since the united $tates has already spent over $1 trillion in Iraq,(2) let's send almost 20% of Iraq to college, everyone aged 15 to 24, say another 5 million people.(3) So now for Iraq and Afghanistan combined let's send 8 million youth to expensive colleges free, at the cost of $100,000 each. Hey, it's still only $800 billion total. Senator Lieberman says the "terrorism" problem is the challenge of our generation, so why not take the whole giant Al-Qaeda base Cheney and Lieberman have been telling Amerikans about, this generation of concern opposing Amerikans and bribe it out of action. We surely would not want to miss the "challenge" of our generation.

You'd have said we are crazy bleeding-heart socialists for suggesting it before the war, but now you know how crazy imperialism is, how quickly it will spend money for no gain of any sort. Amerikans need big, huge messianic projects, so the question is how to give Amerikkkans an outlet of a safe sort. The trouble is that all the testosterone is in the military. All the profits go to Halliburtons and Blackwells. What we need is some college presidents to kick some political ass and ask for their share of the booty, as if they were imperialists in good standing. The college administrator bourgeoisie settles for paltry budgets that the Pentagon would not accept.

Just like the "food aid" racket, the money would end up in U.$. pockets, paying salaries of professors and book publishers. Now the $1 trillion goes to paying for hospital stays for veterans suffering from brain injuries no one knows how to treat. When Amerikans are lucky, the money goes to military pensions for people who do--nothing. So which hare-brained scheme has more prospect for the species we ask. It would be $800 billion invested in making Amerika more educated, expanding demand for education and stimulating the economy.

Of course, some of the fear-mongers running our country will be afraid of taking the students inside U.$. borders, in which case it would be fine by us if the University of Texas sets up campus in Baghdad. The Austin branch has 50,000. We just need another 160 new branches like that, and that would be a smaller project than what the Pentagon is trying to do now, impress so-called democracy upon a people via the exploiters' bullets.

Notes:
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Afghanistan
2. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11880954/
3. http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/idbpyrs.pl?cty=IZ&out=s&ymax=250