On 1/2/16 7:27 AM, Maxim Linchits wrote: > Thanks for your kind words. Well, all good things must come to an end > - they told me my time was up, again. > > I guess John reserved the last word, in comment 36: "Including the > jihadis? You seriously believe that the Syrian govt should sit down > and negotiate the future of Syria with Chechen, Saudi, Egyptian, > German, French, and British takfiris? Really? You mean we’ve actually > wasted precious minutes of our lives debating with someone whose > solution is to reach a settlement with people whose objective is a > final solution?" > > Wow, what a tantrum. Playing political football with Holocaust > imagery is always a nice touch. And the hypocrisy is just comical. > This is coming from a guy who sees a total military victory by Assad > (not against ISIS surely) as the "solution" and advocates > negotiations with the Taliban, claiming they have *majority* support > in Afghanistan - contrary to all evidence. (For the record, I have > no problem with the Taliban being integrated into the political > process, although I claim no expertise on the issue.) >
Although it is hardly worth my time to explain how John Wight came to this POV in any kind of detail, suffice it to say that he was a member briefly of the Workers World Party when he lived in the USA. This group emerged in the 1950s after Sam Marcy broke with the SWP over Hungary. He supported Russian intervention even though as a long-time Trotskyist, he failed to see the progressive dynamic of the struggle against bureaucracy. In essence, Wight took the lessons he learned in this sect and deepened the trajectory. This made him a perfect fit for the Socialist Unity blog that was closely tied to the RESPECT party in Britain that was led by George Galloway. This group had many members with ties to the Stop the War Coalition that in turn was a combination of former members of the British SWP that had been moving along the same lines as the Marcyites in the USA. The best known members were John Rees and Lindsay German. They work closely with people like Andrew Murray, a long-time member of the British Communist Party. The best word for all this is neo-Stalinism. At least with the original Stalinism, you might have the excuse of supporting a socialist experiment, no matter how bastardized. But to support Putin in the same way when Moscow has more Maserati and Hermes stores than you can shake as stick at? Well, you know what Marx said about farce following tragedy. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
