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Yeah if only they'd listened more to revolutionaries in Manhattan with experience of oraganising a society of 4 million people half of whom are recent refugees and of guerilla war, then they'd actually know Assad and imperialists couldn't be trusted, because they had absolutely no idea before (I mean, they might have said it a million or so times, but that's easy to ignore). Then they could make a pristine revolution with no compromises and agreements with anyone, just like the Bolsheviks. Justified sarcasm aside, one can only seriously say this with considerable ignorance of the actual nature of the hostile if sometimes truce-like nature of the relationship between Assad and the Rojava revolution, and general ignorance of the nature of irregular civil war in failed states. "Oooh, Assad still pays the teachers in Rojava", a number of people have excitedly exclaimed. Yeah he does, just like he always did in a number of rebel-held areas. On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 at 7:42 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. > ***************************************************************** > > On 6/22/17 5:15 PM, Chris Slee via Marxism wrote: > > > > The regime wants to eventually regain control of the whole country. > Having recaptured eastern Aleppo, it wants to expand its territory > further. But the growing strength of the SDF makes it an obstacle. If the > SDF succeeds in liberating Raqqa, it will become even stronger, and more of > an obstacle to Assad's plans. > > All this was predictable. The Kurds tend to make unprincipled > combinations that bite them in the ass in the long run. > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/nick.j.fredman%40gmail.com > On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 at 7:42 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. > ***************************************************************** > > On 6/22/17 5:15 PM, Chris Slee via Marxism wrote: > > > > The regime wants to eventually regain control of the whole country. > Having recaptured eastern Aleppo, it wants to expand its territory > further. But the growing strength of the SDF makes it an obstacle. If the > SDF succeeds in liberating Raqqa, it will become even stronger, and more of > an obstacle to Assad's plans. > > All this was predictable. The Kurds tend to make unprincipled > combinations that bite them in the ass in the long run. > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/nick.j.fredman%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
