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On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 12:41 PM Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > This is the kind of article I'd expect to read in WSWS.org. These guys > are wacko. > > https://thegrayzone.com/2019/07/06/dsa-jacobin-iso-socialism-conference-us-funded-regime-change/ They are wacko middle class moralists. They don't approach world politics on a marxist, materialist workers class struggle basis but on an abstract moral perspective of taking a stance against evil (U.S. imperialist government) on the side of good (governments in conflict with U.S. government). The capitalist regime oppressing workers in Russia is on the "anti-imperialist" good side in their book. The modus operandi of these wackos is not based on working class struggle but instead on bourgeois moral purity. They search to find some connection - however insignificant, distant, accidental (or predictable, given politics in a capitalist world) - that their target has with some capitalist entity, government or non-governmental. See! we have proven that our enemies are not pure, now we can reveal that they are part of a conscious and secret imperialist plot. This is the simplistic moralist methodology of Russian counter-revolutionaries who accused Lenin and the Bolsheviks of being traitors and German agents: the Bolsheviks took money and assistance from the German government! _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
