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On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Jim via Marxism <[email protected] > wrote: What exactly is the meaning of 'Baathist amen corner' that is different > using > the wording 'pro-Baathist'? Like most little barbs Lou considers clever, it means exactly nothing. Have you not noticed him applying it to Patrick Higgins, immediately after reading an article in which Higgins wrote of the CIA's past support for the Syrian Ba'ath and criticized its repression of Kurdish national aspirations, which he supports? Or, more likely, not reading it. When you see Lou write it, or anything of the sort, imagine a member of one small Trotskyist sect calling a partisan of another a "Stalinist," and you'll basically have the right idea. It's a combination of intellectual sloppiness and rhetoric that - I guess? - is incendiary within an echo chamber whose numbers might charitably reach the multiple dozens. -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað." _________________________________________________________ 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
