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The fact that Golden Dawn and the like support Putin just means that the far right is also not uniform. The far right in different countries have different agendas. It is like saying that Golden Dawn has, at various points, supported Palestine, while the far right in many parts of Europe and the US have also supported Israel. There were definitely far right groups in Ukraine that did support the Euro Maidan, the Svoboda Party being the most obvious example. In times of crisis, rightists will mobilize just as leftists will do. Re: "The Western Left" I have seen leftists in the West take many different positions. It's true that a significant segment basically threw in with Putin, although my guess would be that a significant number did not even wade in. But the article you posted goes far beyond this and draws a bunch of conclusions about American and European leftists with very little evidence. There does not appear to be any attempt at quantifying these various factions or even meaningfully defining who they are or who is in them or anything. It sounds like a guy just ranting about how shitty the left is (as though that is news) and then making one conjecture after the next to sully anti-imperialism as a whole. Considering who is behind the article I would not expect much better from them. - Amith On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote: > On 6/1/15 11:29 AM, A.R. G wrote: > >> Much of the article is simply beyond analysis because it is just >> unsubstantiated attack after the next. "Anarchists," "American >> leftists," "Maoists," xyz group of people one after the next are accused >> of some political crime or the other without any real attempt to cite >> instances, groups, etc. The article attempts to paint the left in the US >> or in Europe (ignoring the rest of the world) as though there is any >> sort of consistency among "leftists". Pretty sure there isn't any. >> > > The main point of the article is incontrovertible, namely that the large > majority of the Western left and the European fascist movement was hostile > to Maidan and supports the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. > > Here is one example: > > Ukraine is Washington’s pretext for a conflict with Russia. The threat of > conflict is evident from the flood of propaganda in the Zionist media. > Putin is demonized daily as Saddam Hussein and Qaddafi were earlier, while > known Zionist newspapers like the Washington Post and New York Times, > present daily ‘evidence’ Russian troops are ready to invade Ukraine. The > only things missing are the weapons of mass destruction in order to have a > complete repeat. > > The events in Ukraine demonstrate clearly that American imperialism has > launched a strategy, the first unsuccessful steps which were Syria and > Iran, weakening and elimination of Russia as a Great Power. Russia is the > most serious obstacle to the American imperialism to assert its hegemony in > the Middle East, East Mediterranean, and Eurasia. > > full: https://news.vice.com/article/i-know-you-are-a-fascist-but-what-am-i > > Reading the above paragraphs, you would assume that it was something that > Mike Whitney or Andre Vltchek might have written when in fact it was from a > Golden Dawn statement. > > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
