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on Sonntag, 27. Dezember 2015 at 00:10, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: > But as I pointed out, it *is* the opinion of Gowans. The PSL cited him > in 2012. So did a bunch of other "anti-imperialist" websites including > the rancid 911 truther Voltairenet: > "All in all, Syria remains too much like the socialist state the Arab > Socialist Ba’ath Party founders envisaged for it, and too little like a > platform for increasing the profits of overseas banks, investors and > corporations. Accordingly, its regime of self-directed, independent, > economic development must be changed." Again you are reading in the text what is not written. Written is: "the socialist state the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party founders envisaged for it" So it is not the author of those lines, but the "Ba'ath Party founders" which envisaged a "socialist state". However they did envision it. Besides that, the above paragraph spells a truth: despite having served as subcontractor in the USA's world wide torture network, the Ba'ath regime shows too much independence from the USA for not having to undergo a "regime change", serving the grand design for a "new Middle East" as layed out in the time of the war against Iraq, another regime which had shown too much independence, but which was much more attractive for having a lot of oil, and which was not under control of the US energy giants. We may agree that those regimes are useless, but then we should also both agree that they have not to be replaced by a government with the Empire's blessing, but by a leadership which can unite not only their country as gerrymandered by the British and French colonialists, but the whole Arab nation in a liberation war against the USA and the minor imperialist powers. Such a war would not have to be so bloody as Vietnam's war for freedom, since the Empire is much weaker now than back then. And an actual revolutionary leadership like the Cuban one would know how to fight and win without shedding too much blood (as the Cubans have shown in Angola). Cheers, Lüko Willms Frankfurt/Main, Germany http://www.mlwerke.de _________________________________________________________ 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
