These thoughts are also presented in slightly expanded form in Paul Le Blanc's
2023 booklet 'Making Sense of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine':
https://anticapitalistresistance.org/making-sense-of-russias-invasion-of-ukraine/
There is a YouTube meeting around the booklet, with Paul Le Blanc, Yuliya
Michael,
We might disagree over platforming contributions promoting the view that the
war in Ukraine is " primarily a conflict between NATO and Russia with Ukraine
as a de facto NATO forward base", but your analogy of the Vietnam War is spot
on, very important and not cited enough against the
I wonder is everyone so content to see Marxmail diverge so much from the
intentions of Louis Proyect by allowing a platform for campists and
necessitating a pointless debate with those who have so many platforms
elsewhere?
Anyway here is a recent response to an old talking-point once again
The visceral positive reaction that many have to the idea of themselves or
their loved ones joining the army and engaging in death and pain work
suggests that the left position on war and militarism, and on the need to
ultimately organise wage-earning soldiers, is not intuitive but desirable.
On
This new popular read is of interest in this area: ‘Humankind: A Hopeful
History’ by Rutger Bregman (Bloomsbury, London, 2020). He stands up to
Pinker.
On Fri 4 Sep 2020 at 4:21 p.m., Louis Proyect wrote:
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On Thu 20 Aug 2020 at 6:06 p.m., D Derwin wrote:
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illogic in their polemics. Polemical
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John R. was correct in his logic after all...it is the CIA, and the
internal rest.
Incredibly though it looks less like satire and more like sophistry. Very
intelligent, erudite and clever joining of dots (some real) to get a
theory. There’s more than dotty chemtrailers making mischief.
On Wed
All an SVR plot
On Thu 20 Aug 2020 at 1:11 a.m., John Reimann <1999wild...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Brilliant piece of satire, applying the same standards that "lefts" use to
> defend Assad and others. By those standards, the BLM protests are all a CIA
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