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/
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Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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