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Putin as Lincoln? These people are unbelievable! 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, Sep 12, 2016 at 6:08 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > We should also seriously interrogate the notion of politicians and look to > Marx himself for inspiration when dealing with Assad and Putin. He knew > exactly what Abraham Lincoln was and was not as a white former railroad > lawyer and son-in-law of a slave-owning family. Yet his journalism for > Horace Greeley and letters to the president would make you think that the > Great Emancipator was a premonition of Lenin. That is not because he was > blind to Lincoln’s many massive flaws. Instead it was because he saw the > Union Army as an engine of historical progress despite the flaws. Does > Vladimir Putin have similar flaws? Yes, many, but his challenge to NATO and > the imperial project is objectively a progressive goal and effort despite > the flawed engine that delivers it. > > http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/12/the-israel-lobby-the- > syrian-war-and-the-meaning-of-empire/ > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/clayclai%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ 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
