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On 10/20/17 9:20 AM, Ron Jacobs via Marxism wrote:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/11/syria-beyond-western-myths-and-half-truths/
Ron, you wrote:
"For example, although many socialists would have difficulty considering
the Baathist economy as being socialist in nature, that has been the
guiding interpretation of many in the Washington political establishment."
What is your point? That an analysis of the Syrian economy should not be
based on an examination of class structures but what some rightwing
ideologue in the USA says?
Gowans book is filled with references to "the Washington political
establishment" but my review is based on the concrete reality of foreign
investment, the agrarian crisis, rentier state contradictions, etc.
His book is a pile of steaming excrement and you acquitted yourself
poorly by praising it.
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