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Clay Claiborne, Director Vietnam: American Holocaust <http://VietnamAmericanHolocaust.com> Linux Beach Productions Venice, CA 90291 (310) 581-1536 Read my blogs at the Linux Beach <http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/> <http://wlcentral.org/user/2965/track> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > Syria and the Left > by Yassin Al-Haq Saleh > > Yassin Al Haj Saleh is one of Syria’s leading political dissidents. He > spent from 1980-1996 in Syrian prisons and became one of the key > intellectual voices of the 2011 Syrian uprising. He spent 21 months in > hiding within Syria, eventually escaping to Istanbul. He was interviewed > via email by New Politics co-editor Stephen R. Shalom in early November > 2014. > > New Politics. You have written eloquently about the ongoing struggle for > progressive values in Syria. In most Western nations, particularly in the > United States, the left has relatively little power. What do you think the > Western left could best do to express its solidarity with the Syrian > revolution? > > Yassin Al Haj Saleh. I am afraid that it is too late for the leftists in > the West to express any solidarity with the Syrians in their extremely hard > struggle. What I always found astonishing in this regard is that mainstream > Western leftists know almost nothing about Syria, its society, its regime, > its people, its political economy, its contemporary history. Rarely have I > found a useful piece of information or a genuinely creative idea in their > analyses. My impression about this curious situation is that they simply do > not see us, > This is racism. Can we have a psychological and political discussion of the mechnanism white people us to render colored people invisible. The number ! problem with the US Left is racism. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
