On the contrary, there is a world movement, and the views, opinions, actions and struggles of workers and activists in one country affect the people of other countries. The Syrian struggle is of especial importance both because of its significance with respect to the Middle East, and because the failure to sympathize with the uprising of the masses against a bloodstained dictatorship which has frozen political life in Syria for decades says a great deal about the theoretical and political crisis in the left-wing movements today.
Telling the workers and activists to ignore these issues is to help defang the movement. Counterposing the struggle against the economic devastation of the workers in the US to the struggles of other working people around the world is national narrow-mindedness of the most ignorant sort, no better than ignoring the struggle of workers in other cities, states, and occupations than one's own. > The only appropriate context for this debate over Syria would be a graduate > Seminar in a school of journalism. > > It has no interest for leftists focused on affecting u.s. policy abroad or at > home. It is a merely academic squabble among those who make no pretense even > of affecting events there. > > The condition of workers in the u.s. is steadily disintegrating; capitalist > power is growing and the power of resistance is weakening. And Lou wants to > drag us into a academic quarrel that has no political significance. > > Carrol > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l ----------------------------------- Joseph Green [email protected] ------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
