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ha! so he was defending you? it's all so complicated ... thanks louis. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis Proyect" <l...@panix.com> To: "Faulkner, Charles" <lacena...@comcast.net>, "Serve, Marxism" <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> Sent: Saturday, December 6, 2014 8:50:26 AM Subject: Re: [Marxism] Links Magazine in Australia: a sinkhole of Great Russian chauvinism On 12/6/14 11:42 AM, Charles Faulkner via Marxism wrote: > > i have no idea what you mean by the below. it doesn't seem to work at all. > literally or ironically. > > > I agree that we are ill served by our moderator, who is not only an > irritable duffer prone to ad hominem attacks, but also willfully ignores > the overwhelming evidence that Putinist Russia, since it has already solved > all its own problems at home in the most egalitarian, progressive, > democratic, and humane way possible, is an anti-imperialist, leftist > paradise uniquely placed to liberate "millions of Ukrainians" from > their brutal "far-right regime": That was written in irony by Thomas Campbell who was active on the Russian left and who I count as a major influence on my rethinking Russia's political role. I had already begun to move away from "anti-imperialist" support for Putin after the second invasion of Chechnya, an atrocity that clearly inspired Bashar al-Assad. To keep up with Thomas's coverage of Russian politics, bookmark this: https://therussianreader.wordpress.com/ _________________________________________________________ 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
