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[reply inline / bottom-posted] on Tue, 25 Feb 2014 01:33:45 +0200, Sergii Kutnii wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > As for the reality of fascist threat - yes Svoboda is at least a > right-wing populist party with strong fascist elements. > > Yes, they can become a serious problem for the left in Ukraine. But > the possibility of a fascist takeover during the coming years is quite > low. > > The revolutionary movement is very heterogeneous. It has a liberal > wing that is not very happy with Svoboda. And Svoboda has largely > discredited itself during the events. And now it has a very strong > competitor on the right - the Right sector - a coalition of smaller > ultra-right organizations that now have parliamentary ambitions as > well. The rivalry between them has already been quite bitter up to > violent confrontations on Maidan. > > Also, Svoboda might have drawn the most Western media attention in the > street but most government positions were occupied by more moderate > forces. Presumably using 'revolutionary movement' to designate the largely nationalist movement of various reactionary elements is ironic. Scratch a liberal and you find a reactionary, etc.; as with 'moderate'. What exactly is the strength of 'the left', by which those on this list would understand the revolutionary left (e.g. not of the red/brown variety of the CP of the Russian Federation) assuming there is one of any note? -- Jim Moody (j...@wiht.org) on 25/02/2014 NUJ 024828 ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
