I still believe in the idea that the CIA or factions within the bourgeoisie assassinated JFK. It doesn’t matter that JFK was a war criminal who was just as bad as most other Presidents in the United States history. What matters is that his death to this day just comes off as incredibly suspicious and the fact that he wanted to get rid of the CIA just makes me… not really trust the official narrative. I mean, the narrative painting the man who did initially as a communist just seems too convenient…
I’m sorry, I know how I sound, but I used to grow up with 9/11 conspiracy theories as well. In many ways, it made me anti-imperialist, but it certainly did give rise in me to certain suspicious about the US government as well. I know that I shouldn’t be thinking like this, but honestly? I don’t know. And perhaps none of us will know for sure. But I can’t help but get the feeling that the bourgeoisie would easily cannibalize their own.
The US would never kill its own head of state? They’re easily replaceable, don’t have complete control of the federal government, and besides, kings were assassinated by nobles way back when for much less.
Honestly, I get how I sound, and maybe it’s my extreme case of OCD, but I just grew up with this as a fact. Maybe I need to rethink all this.
I’m sorry, comrades, but this is kinda hard for me.
(Also, this is a reply to the previous thread about this topic).
Conspiracy theory pushers usually push a lot of emotional buttons really hard to get people to buy into their theory. If you grew up around them I could understand having this be a really big deal for you.
Here’s a bigger question you should ponder. What difference does it make if this theory is true or false? If it’s true that JFK wanted to abolish the CIA and they offed him because of that, what does this tell us about the world? It doesn’t really tell us all that much. It may tell us something about JFK as an individual, but what would it even matter? As you acknowledged, he was an imperialist war criminal. If he felt the CIA had too much power it was because he felt they posed a threat to his own power, not out of some noble patriotic love for democracy.
And we all know the CIA’s bread and butter involves political assassinations. I don’t see any reason to suspect they would refrain from offing a POTUS if they saw a reason. Nothing else so far has been off limits for them. So it wouldn’t tell us much new about the CIA or world imperialism. It could provide us with information about political cleavages in the state sixty years ago, but this is hardly valuable tactical information now
There’s not gonna be some storybook moment where the masses gather in Langley, Virginia and shut down the CIA because sixty years later we finally got confirmation that JFK was an inside job. Not gonna happen.
So I would encourage you to shift how you think about this question. The answer doesn’t really matter. Therefore the question itself is not all that important at this point.
I know all this. I’m just saying that I still think that JFK was offed by the CIA. And yes, I’m well-aware that JFK only cared about his position in all this, nothing more.
Yeah, but why does that matter?
I don’t think it matters much in the grand scheme of things. I just think that people deserve to know the truth, but that’s about it.
In general I agree actually, but really how this question could be settled is by opening up the CIA’s archives one way or another, not endless speculation.
Yes, agreed.