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On 3/10/14 11:28 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:
Fair enough. But do we support all mass movements without exception - even ones led by popular right wing groups and parties often viciously opposed to the values and institutions historically supported by the left?
There was no "mass movement". This was a spontaneous revolt of people fed up by corruption and poverty. A mass movement would be something like the civil rights movement in the USA that has developed organically over decades or the antiwar movement. People poured into Maidan square and the well-organized and powerful ultraright used the opportunity to muscle out the left.
If the fucking Svoboda had issued calls for mass demonstrations and tens of thousands of people in Kiev marched under its swastika-like banner and cheered its speakers, and then began to take its marching orders from its leaders, then people like Gary Leupp would have a point. But they didn't. Ordinary people are being slandered because they have a twisted idea that the BRICS are some kind of latter-day USSR/Non-Aligned movement. This is the same bullshit that is going on with all the Baathist apologetics. It is sheer madness.
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