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I have kept silent on the whole sad Syrian saga. The suffering of the people is too much to contemplate. My high hopes for the Arab Spring have been drowned in blood by the Imperialists and their lackeys. But to see Putin constructed as an historically progressive figure is just a bridge too far. What have we come to? Can't we spot evil any more? comradely Gary On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 11:08 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > We should also seriously interrogate the notion of politicians and look to > Marx himself for inspiration when dealing with Assad and Putin. He knew > exactly what Abraham Lincoln was and was not as a white former railroad > lawyer and son-in-law of a slave-owning family. Yet his journalism for > Horace Greeley and letters to the president would make you think that the > Great Emancipator was a premonition of Lenin. That is not because he was > blind to Lincoln’s many massive flaws. Instead it was because he saw the > Union Army as an engine of historical progress despite the flaws. Does > Vladimir Putin have similar flaws? Yes, many, but his challenge to NATO and > the imperial project is objectively a progressive goal and effort despite > the flawed engine that delivers it. > > http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/12/the-israel-lobby-the- > syrian-war-and-the-meaning-of-empire/ > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/gary.maclennan1%40gmail.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
