[Is HATE the engine that drives History? Was he talking about HATE when Marx wrote '"The [written] history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle"? Is Terrorism just another HATE crime like 'queer bashing' or 'nigger knocking' or 'WWII'?

HATE certainly is a much sexier consideration than, say, social engineering and labor transfers, increased concentration of surplus value, or forced commercial and financial expropriation and the seizure of new markets. Who would willingly lay down his life for the reallocation of (privatized) energy franchises in Central and Eastern Europe (from direct dealings with the Russian source, ...   more »