Re: [Marxism] ?Consistent Advocates of the Arab People?: Soviet Perceptions of and Policy on Palestine - COSMONAUT

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Edward Said articulated a similar point in his introduction to The Politics of 
Dispossession (1994). 

However, trying to make the claim that socialism is a project that must exist 
autonomous of and perhaps even opposed to geopolitics is naive if not 
altogether bound to the symptoms that Lenin described as an infantile disorder. 
The recent book by Gerald Horne on South Africa and the role of 
internationalism makes the argument that the Soviet Union played a key role 
and, if they had not been there, we very well could still be living with an 
apartheid regime in South Africa. Now certainly one must indicate that Cuba’s 
military intervention was a significant element. But considering the reduction 
of what Cuba is capable of after 1991, it would be incorrect to claim Havana’s 
absolute autonomy from Moscow. Horne has argued for decades now that African 
Americans were given substantial aid by international solidarity and that its 
absence would have resulted in fewer gains in the liberation struggle. We spoke 
about this in a recent podcast:



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Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 09:32:22 -0400
From: Louis Proyect 
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Subject: [Marxism] ?Consistent Advocates of the Arab People?: Soviet
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Abdullah Smith argues that the USSR?s relation to Palestinian national 
liberation was more about realpolitik than earnest dedication to the 
cause of the Palestinian people.

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[Marxism] “Consistent Advocates of the Arab People”: Soviet Perceptions of and Policy on Palestine - COSMONAUT

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Abdullah Smith argues that the USSR’s relation to Palestinian national 
liberation was more about realpolitik than earnest dedication to the 
cause of the Palestinian people.


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