Critique of "campism"

> they can't >possibly understand what you're saying lead in that direction? > > --- > Many of the contradictions and predicaments faced by left you point to are > echoed in an excellent piece by George Monbiot > > > https://www.theguard

Re: The War to come ...

Some yes, mostly no. There are some intersections, but I specifically and deliberately did NOT argue that anti-imperialists are echoing Russian disinfo bots, let alone aiding and abetting Putin’s project. On the contrary, I was challenging exactly that model of a priori dismissal of opposing vie

Re: The War to come ...

Apologies for the broken link to George Monbiot article. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/02/russian-propaganda-anti-imperialist-left-vladimir-putin Best David From: Henk Borgdorff Date: Sunday, 20 March 2022 at 21:39 To: David Garcia Subject: Re: The War to come ...

Re: The War to come ...

Ted Byfield >Internationalism is an absolutely legitimate leftist stance too: >anti-imperialist I'm seeing here and elsewhere seems to be, more than anything >else, not just intellectually isolationist in its >origins but practically >isolationist in its consequences. And when it consigns other

Re: The War to come ...

On 19 Mar 2022, at 13:42, I wrote: > I read Streeck's essay when it first appeared, and my sense was that you > could string together many of the points he makes and arrive at very > different conclusions. Someone pointed me to this FAZ piece on Streeck's essay: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wis

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Marie Yovanovitch: "We did not enough to dissuade Putin" (Vanity Fair)

Original to: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/putin-marie-yovanovitch-biden-ukraine (paywall, limited xs) Former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch Talks Path to War Ousted by Donald Trump as his team schemed in Ukraine, Yovanovitch is watching Russia’s war from afar—and urging t