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On 4/8/11 6:20 PM, Suresh wrote:
There is no appreciable socialist, communist, or anarchist movement in the Middle East, full stop. There are only scattered remnants, like the Lebanese Communist Party, which lost 12 of its members fighting Israel in 2006. The left is part of the region's history, not it's present. The revolution is not going to evolve in a left-wing direction, because by the time such elements emerge (which will take many years at best) the revolution will be ancient history.
I think I finally understand where you are coming from politically. We heard the same sermon from Yoshie on PEN-L, LBO-Talk and Marxmail for several years before she finally followed her own logic, unsubbed from these mailing lists, and set up shop at MRZine.
Frankly, this is the same "facts on the ground" approach that once led Stalin to ask how many divisions the Vatican had.
That's okay. Marxmail will continue on its quixotic way trying to work with Marxists no matter how small in number they are. I invite anybody who thinks that Marxism belongs to the past to follow things through to their logical conclusion and go somewhere else.
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