On 1/15/07, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Given the new Crusade mounted by Anglo-American imperialism since
9/11, it is completely understandable that some radicals would
identify with those under attack in the same way that the war in
Vietnam led young radicals to break with their class and explore
socialism in the 1960s. If we are in the throes of a new kind of Cold
War, perhaps it makes sense to align oneself with Washington's new
enemies. If one can reach the conclusion that the Kremlin stood for
historical progress, despite its hidebound bureaucratic top layers,
why not see political Islam in the same fashion? If secular and
socialist forces are exhausted, why not form alliances with a
powerful global movement that seems to have inexhaustible reservoirs
of anti-imperialist fervor?
full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/socialism-and-islam/
To consider the question of "alliances" seriously, you have to first
build your own social force. Adding 0 to 1 equals 1.
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Yoshie
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