Is there some logic behind referring to the "World Socialist Website" as "the left"?
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > In June 2004 the World Socialist Website published by David North waxed > ecstatic over the resistance to the US Marines in the battle of Fallujah: > > One resident who spoke to the Los Angles Times described the > uprising > as a popular revolt against the occupying power. “Every Fallujan who was > able to carry weapons participated,” he said. “All of us are mujahedin. > No masks will be used anymore by the mujahedin. We are struggling > openly. Our relationship with the new Iraqi commander and his people is > very good. They did not come on the back of the American tanks. They are > our sons.” The Times reporter cited a sign hanging on the gate of a > mosque that captured the mood. It read, “We are the soldiers of Muhammad > and not the soldiers of Saddam. We love death as you love life.” > > Words such as “All of us are mujahedin” and “We are the soldiers of > Muhammad” prompt a different reaction today of course. They are > equivalent to Mein Kampf. > > full: > > http://louisproyect.org/2015/11/23/the-lefts-on-again-off-again-bromance-with-jihadists/ > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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