On 1/15/07, Marvin Gandall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That said, if the left and the Islamists were equally vying for the allegiance of the masses in their own countries, they'd be at each other's throats - as in Palestine, for example.
Fatah is not the left, however.
The current effort of some Marxists to ally with the Islamists and other religious parties with mass constituencies is a reflection of their isolation, their inability to project themselves as an independent mass force, an attempt to indirectly gain access to the masses through the churches and mosques.
It's not so much isolation as non-existence: the left is virtually non-existent in the USA and the Middle East. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
