摘要：Few on the Left will have missed the symbolic dimension of those terrible events: the perpetrators chose to attack key symbols of American capitalism's economic dominion and military might. This is not accidental, as both Leo Panitch and Ellen Wood stress. Islamic and other fundamentalisms have stepped into the vacuum created by the defeat of the old Left and the US-backed crushing of secular nationalist opponents of corrupt regimes. And the very fact that the Left and the attackers appear to have common enemies is helping to justify the imposition of stringent "anti-terrorist" legislation across the West threatening opposition to imperialist globalization at home and abroad.
