Far be it from me to insist on niceties in arguments, but.... Mr. Proyect is using a false analogy regarding Yastrazhembsky and Rice:
Rice is wrong NOT SIMPLY because she is the Bush's NSA, but because she is demonstrably a liar, distorting fact in service of class interest. So while Yastrazhembsky's position in the Russian government obviously speaks to his lack of "uninterest," it still must be demonstrated that he is a liar, distorting fact in the service of his class interest. I'm sure, with the vast resources at his command, Mr. Proyect will be able to provide such demonstration. It comes down to asking Yaz what you ask Condee-- "where's the evidence?" Or absent that, detailing the class interest that requires the promulgation of a false ideology to obscure and cover its real designs. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis Proyect" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 6:19 AM Subject: [PEN-L] Chris Doss's "sources" > Yesterday, Chris Doss told PEN-L that there was ethnic cleansing in > Chechnya, including Jews. Since demagogic charges of anti-Semitism has > surfaced to such an extreme degree in recent years, I was particularly > interested to see if there was hard evidence of this. > > So, instead of producing articles from respected sources, he cites 2 > experts. > > One is Vladimir Bilenkin, a professional sectarian who has been living > in the USA during the entire time under question and who helped to > destroy the original Marxism list run by the Spoons Collective with his > partner Bob Malecki. If he ever wrote anything worth taking seriously, I > am not aware of it. > > The other is Sergei Yastrzhembsky, an adviser to Putin. You might as > well cite Condoleeza Rice on Iraq. > > -- > Marxism list: www.marxmail.org
