Lou wrote:
>The real issue
>is not anti-Semitism or fascism, but the stubborn refusal of some radicals
>to get on board the hate Yugoslavia campaign. Now that this is a dead
>issue, the demagogues have turned their attention to Russia. Anybody who
>does not take an oath of allegiance against the Communist Party of the
>Russian Federation is once again tarred with the brush of the ultraright.
_Both_ are real issues (& in fact they are _dialectical twins_), in
that anti-Semitism in Russia -- socialism of fools -- is an index of
political limitation, just as the failure of the Western Left to
sustain anti-imperialism is. While there is no reason to promote an
overblown fear of so-called Red-Brown alliances on the periphery,
dismissing anti-Semitism as "not a real issue" doesn't help defend
nations on the periphery from imperialist attacks, first of all
because we can't win many to an anti-imperialist politics by
dismissing the question just like that, instead of analyzing it. On
the contrary, we end up losing anti-imperialist leftists like
Johannes.
(I myself refused to get on board with the "hate Yugoslavia"
campaign, but that doesn't mean I agreed with Jared on his analysis,
tactic, etc. either. Jared helped a lot by disseminating some useful
info, and I thank him for it, but his glosses on info were sometimes
counter-productive, in my opinion.)
Skepticism about the political capacity & orientation of the CPRF,
the Socialist Party of Yugoslavia, etc. is not at all the same as
demagogic portrayals of Jared or anyone else.
What we need is a cool-headed, judicious analysis, without which we
can hardly make Marxism grow in influence in places where we find
ourselves.
As a co-moderator, I ask you & everyone else here to provide an
analysis _free from wishful-thinking_. Also, I urge all to _separate
the political from the personal_.
Yoshie
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