[Marxism] Fwd: Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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https://louisproyect.org/2017/04/08/neo-nazi-leader-hails-bashar-al-assad/
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[Marxism] Fwd: Syria, The Left, and The World

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Yassin al-Haj Saleh interview.

Assad’s regime is in no way secular, it is sectarian and securitarian. 
When it comes to the Islamic World, many I the west tend to adopt what I 
call Huntingtonian secularism, defining secularism in an oversimplifying 
culturalist way as something against Islam, completely detached from 
politics, social and economic affairs, and from individual and 
collective dignity. Most people in the west simply know nothing about 
Syria. Most of the press coverage of Syria is made of simplifications 
that show Bashar Assad in expensive suits and neckties, maybe his rich 
and elegant wife, usually with insinuations to his Alawi minority, 
meaning he is not from the Sunni Muslim majority, from whom minorities 
should be protected. Many of these coverages are imbued with 
Islamophobic sentiments. These factors made it easier for many to 
identify with the thuggish regime far more than with those who were 
invisible for years and decades, and are now rising up against it.


full: 
http://aljumhuriya.net/en/the-role-of-the-intellectual/syria_the_left_and_the_world

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[Marxism] Fwd: Trump’s Dangerous and Cynical Attack on Syria - Progressive.org

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http://progressive.org/dispatches/trump%E2%80%99s-dangerous-and-cynical-attack-on-syria/
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Trump administration says the Syria airstrike was a one-off — Quartz

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The Trump administration has given out conflicting signals regarding its 
attitude toward Syrian president Bashar al Assad: it says its missile 
airstrike was a one-off response to Syria’s sarin attack, and that its 
policy accepting Assad as the country’s leader hasn’t changed. But it 
also called for an international coalition to remove Assad.


full: 
https://qz.com/952693/the-trump-administration-says-the-syria-airstrike-was-a-one-off/

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[Marxism] Fwd: With Syria; Against Selective Solidarity | War Resisters League

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https://www.warresisters.org/syria-against-selective-solidarity
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[Marxism] Larry Wilkerson on Syria

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https://youtu.be/Ah14yOHWrGY

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[Marxism] Fwd: Syrian Refugee Hassan Akkad Confronts Anti-Donald Trump Stop The War Protesters At Downing Street | The Huffington Post

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Why Trump acted | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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On 2017-04-07 19:54, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:


https://louisproyect.org/2017/04/07/why-trump-acted/


Well I'm not responding to argue with anything Louis wrote here. But it 
somewhat reminds me of when something happens and the person next to you 
nods knowingly and says "Sure, I always knew that was going to happen." 
Or when there is a surprising event and some all-knowing vanguard party 
announces "This proves exactly what we have been saying for years..."


The fact is that much of what occurs in the world is absolutely 
unpredictable, both due to actual randomness in nature and also because 
we can't know what is going on behind closed walls, no matter how smart 
we are. When someone nevertheless says "That was totally predictable," 
then I can only conclude that they are being consciously deceptive, or 
perhaps more often, deceiving themselves into believing in their own 
ability to predict the unpredictable. I don't mean to pick on Louis in 
particular, or to rub it in, but it was only yesterday that, contrary to 
the explanation he offers in today's blog post:


On 2017-04-06 14:33, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:

... I will repeat what I said yesterday:

"Trump said that he will take some action against Assad--sort of. I
think he will take care of this after he finishes creating bullet
train infrastructure, new airports, finishing the 2nd Avenue subway in
NY and bringing back auto jobs to Detroit paying $40 per hour."


There is no shame in making an incorrect assessment due to the 
information on hand at a particular time, and I generally agree with the 
essence of Louis' statement from yesterday even though the opposite 
occurred. What's worse is when political action is recklessly taken 
based on a hunch or a mechanical view of history, and I am now preparing 
myself to hear from some so-called anti-imperialists that "This proves 
what we have been saying for six years."


The one honest thing that Trump said about himself is that he would be 
unpredictable, and we have seen that many times by now. I would be the 
last to call Trump a compassionate person, but he may well be telling 
the truth in that he did react emotionally to the pictures of the gassed 
children and made a decision that he would not have made on a different 
day. Of course there is much more behind any such decision that was 
already weighing on him: displaying his willingness to use military 
force, trying to portray the US ruling class as wanting to protect 
civilians, showing resolve to act when the rest of the world (in the 
form of the UN Security Council) was paralyzed, an opportunity to test 
US weapons in action, increasing the profile of the US as their forces 
prepare to take Raqqa -- for themselves, and taking a snipe at Obama who 
backed down under similar circumstances is 2013. And then many other 
reasons to not have taken that action such as still preferring the Assad 
regime's rule to any contenders in Syria. And then there are internal 
political pressures in both directions, largely spoken only in private. 
One could not possibly have predicted which way this was going to go and 
Trump wouldn't have known himself either much before it all happened.


I used to think that Trump was a fascist or far-right wing ideologue. 
Now it more appears that he is what he has always been: a businessman, 
one who finds himself the CEO of a country. He is inclined toward and 
surrounds himself with fascist types, and he very well knows how to use 
bigotry and demagogy to manipulate the masses, a fascist trait. But his 
individual decisions are greatly subject to his whims in addition to 
outside pressure, with careful engineering of a long term outcome 
probably playing the least role in his decisions.


I'm sure his rejection of regime change in Syria was totally sincere and 
remains a more thought-out policy that will still be in effect despite 
this week's events. And I think that al-Assad heard that loud and clear, 
and decided this would be a good time to see how far we can go. And then 
he found Trump's response as surprising as Louis would have the day 
before (according to what Louis wrote), and may well now be scratching 
his head. But I doubt he's worried in general. He might decide that 
using chemical weapons is too risky, in which case the US strike might 
bring that much relief to the Syrian people, but not alter the general 
course of the assault against the revolution. And he has little to worry 
about coming from Trump or the so-called international community in 
general.


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[Marxism] Fwd: The Trump Administration Responds to Syria’s Assad with Missiles - Progressive.org

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By Idrees Ahmad

http://progressive.org/dispatches/the-trump-administration-responds-to-syria%E2%80%99s-assad-with-miss/
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[Marxism] Fwd: Why Trump acted | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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[Marxism] Reports and Statements on Syrian Revolution and US bombing of Syria

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Hi,

I would like to draw your attention to some reports and documents which 
we have published today.


Syria: No to Trump's Missiles Strike!  Drive all Great Powers out of 
Syria! Victory to the Syrian Revolution! 
https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/us-air-strike-in-syria/


Press Conference on Assad's Chemical Weapons Attack and US Air Strike 
https://www.thecommunists.net/rcit/press-conference-syria-7-4-2017/


Report: Rally against Assad's Genocidal Attack on Idlib (Syria) 
https://www.thecommunists.net/rcit/rally-syria-5-4-2017/


Is the Syrian Revolution at its End? Is Third Camp Abstentionism Justified?
An essay on the organs of popular power in the liberated area of Syria, 
on the character of the different sectors of the Syrian rebels, and on 
the failure of those leftists who deserted the Syrian Revolution

https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/syrian-revolution-not-dead/

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Re: [Marxism] wd: LIES of the Russian-Syrian regime story on Sarin gas debunked | We Write What We Like

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Ron Jacobs: science I don't like = propaganda. I would think you have been
channeling Jerry Condon but you did not use the word "diabolical."

While we're at it, Ron, is the epithet "right-wing jihadi" just overplus,
or is there in your cosmogony room for left-wing jihadis? Examples of the
latter would be helpful since I'm trying to grow my own army and need some
real badasses for the shit I have in mind. But then if you back off from
that and just called them plain old vanilla jihadis that would make your
discourse identical with that of Patrick Cockburn, Seymour Hersh and other
white men of your age and political sophistication.
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Re: [Marxism] Sanders: 'Make Democrats a party of the working class, not liberal elite'

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But to answer Fred's thought experiment, neither Sanders nor Warren have
themselves shown any indication of any interest in either trying to rout
the neoliberals in the Democratic Party or of breaking with it.

And, if they did, I don't know what influence we could have over it, given
the character of the DP.  And I don't primarily mean less the old (but
legitimate) question of the class character of its political positions or
power structure but its essential character.  That is, since it isn't a
membership party, no current in the voter base has any real definitive
voice over anything the party does or says . . . and only a limited
consumer satisfaction kind of voice in who the candidates are going to be.
So, there's no mechanism for effectively challenging the dominant powers in
the party . . . which is why those who try to do so eventually either give
up or get absorbed into it.

What this means is that--looking at the other alternative--if you did have
a break from the Democrats, what would we be breaking?  Not members.  At
best, perhaps, a handful of progressive figures could lead those non-member
voter consumers into shifting their consumer preference to another party
formation in which they will not be members and over which they will
exercise no power.

The Green Party has already provided an example of what this would look
like.  It's surely better than what we have and anything that breaks down
the peculiar madness of the American two-party system with a non-capitalist
option is welcome.  Supporting the Greens for where it might lead might
have made sense at some point, but--after long years of it--we've probably
seen how far it can go.

And if we already have one, why would we build a strategy around
constructing another Green Party?

Believe me, I wish we had a clearer answer.  But I"m confident that we have
long known what has not provided us an answer.

Solidarity!
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[Marxism] US bombing of Syria didn't begin today

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US bombing of Syria did not begin today, it began in September 2014, 2.5 
years ago. Some 8000 air strikes. Thousands of civilians have been 
killed, including hundreds just in recent weeks in some horrific 
strikes, like the Idlib mosque and the Raqqa school. No-one has ever 
protested. No "anti"-war movement protested. No "anti"-imperialists 
protested. Just this week three prominent US leaders made the policy 
clear that Assad should stay (already unofficial policy for years). Then 
Assad goes and blows it by throwing sarin in their faces! What an idiot. 
I guess he was testing the waters. The US had no choice but to respond 
in some way for the sake of its alleged ... "credibility."


But can I ask, from our point of view, what is the big deal? Why are 
8000 strikes on opponents of Assad (and not only ISIS), killing 
thousands of civilians, not "intervention," yet just when you get one 
strike against the biggest terrorist in Syria, after it slaughters 100 
children with chemical weapons, only that is intervention, that is 
supposedly something more significant, that is something we should 
protest. Can I ask in all honesty what is the difference? Frankly, 
whoever has not been protesting the US bombing of Syria all along the 
last two and a half years, and who now suddenly protests this US 
"intervention" today, cannot in any sense be considered anti-war, or 
anti-imperialist, but simply an apologist for the Assad genocide-regime 
(and that's before even getting to the more fundamental fact that we are 
here talking about people that also never protested the most horrific 
bombing of Syria to pieces for 6 years by the regime and Russian 
imperialism). If that is not logical, then I’d like to have it explained 
to me why.


The interesting issue is why Assad was stupid enough to do this, just a 
few days after Nikki Haley, Sec of State Tillerson, and White House 
spokesman Sean Spicer, all said we're good with Assad staying, and after 
weeks of fairly open US collaboration with Russia and Assad in the 
bombing of Idlib and Deir Ezzor, the reconquest of Palmyra, and even the 
defence of Manbij. I assume Assad was testing the waters, but that just 
shows the arrogance of power. The US was giving him everything; the 
withdrawal of the red line in 2013 was supposed to mean you can do 
everything else except chemical weapons (and thus Assad used everything 
else in the four years since, in unbelievable quantities, with complete 
US indifference, if not support), as part of the US-Russia-Israel deal 
that saw Assad's chemical weapons removed. To then go and use these 
weapons and show off that he still has them was simply impossible for 
the US to ignore in terms of its "credibility." Assad was reading the 
messages correctly from this last week, that US leaders were encouraging 
him; he just read it wrong that this could include sarin. Look at Nikki 
Haley, fuming in the UN; she had to fume, because three days earlier the 
same Nikki Haley made the official announcement (along with Tillerson 
and the White House) that removing Assad was "no longer" (sic) the US 
aim. Assad should have been more gracious about being kissed like that.


Meanwhile, State Dept Tillerson explains this punishment strike should 
not be confused with a US change of line on Syria: "US Secretary of 
State Rex Tillerson said the attack showed the President "is willing to 
take decisive action when called for. I would not in any way attempt to 
extrapolate that to a change in our policy or posture relative to our 
military activities in Syria today," he said. "There has been no change 
in that status. "I think it does demonstrate that President Trump is 
willing to act when governments and actors cross the line and cross the 
line on violating commitments they've made and cross the line in the 
most heinous of ways." 


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[Marxism] Chemistry

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Does anybody on this list know enough about chemistry or know a chemistry
teacher who can say whether the Russian claim about the sarin attack is
chemically possible? I understand witnesses contradict that claim, but I
would like to know if it's even possible. What is the general process for
making this gas, not the specific details, but the general process?
No, but good idea.

On Apr 7, 2017 5:31 AM, "Louis N. Proyect"  wrote:

John, didn't you mean for this to be sent to Marxmail?
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[Marxism] Fwd: Armenia’s Trail of Tears

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On April 21st, “The Promise” will be opening in New York and then 
scheduled for nationwide release in 1,500 theaters. It has much in 
common both politically and artistically with “Bitter Harvest” that I 
reviewed for CounterPunch on February 24th. That film dealt with 
Stalin’s brutal imposition of forced collectivization that had the 
unintended consequence of leaving millions of Ukrainians starving to 
death. “The Promise” is about how the Young Turks expelled the Armenian 
population from the desiccated husk of the Ottoman Empire as it began to 
take shape as modern Turkey during WWI.


As I said in my review of “Bitter Harvest”, neither of these historical 
events could be compared to the Judeocide since Hitler’s death camps 
were meant to exterminate a race on an industrialized, assembly-line 
basis. Although there were mass killings in both Ukraine and eastern 
Anatolia, most of the deaths were the result of putting a population 
under such duress that sickness and death were inevitable. I have always 
thought of the Armenian expulsion as Turkey’s version of Andrew 
Jackson’s “Trail of Tears”. Did Jackson intend for one-out-of-three 
Cherokees to perish on their long trek to Oklahoma? If the removal of 
Indians and Armenians were critical to the formation of a modern state 
based on “enlightenment values” (the Young Turks strongly identified 
with the French Revolution), wasn’t there a productivist logic to ethnic 
cleansing? I reject this kind of argument but at least want to establish 
that there are both American and Turkish historians who would take great 
umbrage at the idea of a genocide taking place in their nation.


full: http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/07/armenias-trail-of-tears/
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[Marxism] Corbyn on Syria

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Someone please remind me what has Corbyn ever done to help the Syrian
people?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2017/apr/07/us-syria-response-donald-trump-assad-pentagon-live?page=with:block-58e76785e4b05776df18b72c#block-58e76785e4b05776df18b72c
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Re: [Marxism] wd: LIES of the Russian-Syrian regime story on Sarin gas debunked | We Write What We Like

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On 2017-04-07 14:12, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:


On 4/7/17 8:06 AM, Ron Jacobs via Marxism wrote:

this piece of propaganda is
not a takedown of the Russian explanation.



Of course it is.

It is a very good takedown in fact.



Moreover the Russian/Syrian government explanation indicts themselves. 
Right after the event they explained without hesitation that their 
bombing attack had released toxic chemicals that were already stocked at 
that location. So they already knew that chemical weapons were stored 
there, according to this lame explanation, but bombed it regardless. 
That makes them responsible for knowingly releasing toxic chemicals, by 
their own admission. If true, that action would be as reprehensible as 
what they actually did, so they're guilty as charged in either case.


- Jeff

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[Marxism] military intervention

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I'm getting lots of likes and retweets for this:



*Andrew Pollack*

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  US military intervention has begun...
It started the day Washington began blocking MANPADS needed by the FSA.
End the arms blockade!
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[Marxism] Sneak Preview: Doug Valentine’s Life and Times of a South Vietnamese Special Police Officer | Washington Babylon

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http://washingtonbabylon.com/sneak-preview-doug-valentines-life-and-times-of-a-south-vietnamese-special-police-officer/


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Re: [Marxism] Trump acts

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People have to understand that Trump did what he did not because he 
cares about toddlers dying from poison gas. He has dramatically 
escalated the killing in ISIS held territory, hasn't he? The point is 
imperialist credibility. When Obama concluded a deal with Putin over 
Assad relinquishing his chemical weapons, the Pentagon and the State 
Department simply could not live with Sarin gas being used again so 
blatantly. Its use meant that the USA was just a paper tiger as Mao put 
it. I don't expect any kind of "regime change" strategy despite Trump 
and Tillerson's rhetoric especially in light of this reporting:



It turns out that President Donald Trump gave a heads up to the Russian 
government before launching his missile strike against Syria on Thursday 
night.


“Russian forces were notified in advance of the strike using the 
established deconfliction line,” said Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff 
Davis in an official statement. “U.S. military planners took precautions 
to minimize risk to Russian or Syrian personnel located at the airfield.”


In response to the attack, Russia has announced that it will help Syria 
strengthen its air defenses. It also may have prepared Syrians for the 
attack by tipping them off, as eyewitnesses observed personnel and 
equipment being moved from the Shayrat airbase in advance of the attack.


full: 
http://www.salon.com/2017/04/07/donald-trump-whos-not-vladimir-putins-puppet-warned-russia-before-airstrikes-on-syria/

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Re: [Marxism] wd: LIES of the Russian-Syrian regime story on Sarin gas debunked | We Write What We Like

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On 4/7/17 8:06 AM, Ron Jacobs via Marxism wrote:

this piece of propaganda is
not a takedown of the Russian explanation.



Of course it is.

It is a very good takedown in fact.

Sarin gas is highly unstable and is easily rendered inert.

“Decomposes thermally to form a variety of phosphorus containing 
products as well as propylene. The rate of decomposition increases with 
increase in temperature, and in the presence of acids. At the boiling 
point of GB, under atmospheric conditions, decomposition is fairly 
rapid.” [PubChem: https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/sarin…]


The Russian account of having bombed a Sarin containing depot is 
scientifically impossible. If you bomb Sarin with incendiaries, it will 
be rendered INERT by the exceedingly high temperature of any blast. It 
just takes 150 °C to decompose Sarin into various forms of phosphorous. 
The average missle emits 2,480 °C (4,500 °F) which is way beyond what it 
would take to completely erase any Sarin.


Then these imbeciles are claiming that pictures of the White Helmets 
wearing only gas masks and no HAZMAT suits means there couldn’t have 
been a Sarin attack. Make up your minds! Either there was a gas attack 
or there wasn’t. Russia ADMITTED that Sarin was released upon the 
population because even they weren’t stupid enough to deny the 
overwhelmingly obvious! And to debunk this nonsense about the White 
Helmets not wearing Hazmat suits, by the time they and other personnel 
would have arrived in the area the Sarin would have dissipated. This is 
from the Center for Disease Control: “Because it evaporates so quickly, 
sarin presents an immediate, but short-lived, threat.” 
[https://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/sarin/basics/facts.asp]


Finally, as Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a former commanding officer of the 
British Armed Forces Joint Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear 
(CBRN) Regiment, said:


“Axiomatically, if you blow up Sarin, you destroy it…It’s very clear 
it’s a Sarin attack…The view that it’s an al-Qaeda or rebel stockpile of 
Sarin that’s been blown up in an explosion, I think is completely 
unsustainable and completely untrue.” [BBC]



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Re: [Marxism] wd: LIES of the Russian-Syrian regime story on Sarin gas debunked | We Write What We Like

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https://wewritewhatwelike.com/2017/04/06/lies-of-the-russian-syrian-regime-story-on-sarin-gas-debunked/

Not that it really matters now since the US missile attack has made the the
US version of events the truth  for now, but this piece of propaganda is
not a takedown of the Russian explanation. It's a rant from a supporter of
right wing jihadists that rivals the propaganda of those some on this list
call Assadistas in its replacement of ideological articles of faith for
facts.
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[Marxism] Ocean Breathes Salty in Syria

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http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/07/ocean-breathes-salty-in-syria/


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[Marxism] World War II and the next stage of the Syrian Revolution

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As the Allied military forces approached cities occupied by one of the Axis
powers in World War II, those cities' workers launched uprisings to take
the anti-occupation struggle into their own hands.
Which meant that when the Allies entered the cities they found independent
forces unwilling to trade one occupier for another.
Unfortunately in each case the Stalinists who had usurped leadership of
those uprisings betrayed them.
I think we will see a similar dynamic beginning in Syria, that as the Assad
regime weakens, the workers of its cities will rise up to drive out all
tyrants and  imperialist occupiers.
Which means we have our work cut out for us to organize solidarity with the
grassroots forces who have stayed steadfast against Assad for six years,
and who have proven over and over again their desire and capability to run
their country themselves.
Victory to the FSA! Drop the anti-revolution arms embargo!
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