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On 07/03/2017 03:43 μμ, Andrew Pollack via Marxism wrote:
For them, Syria is "complicated," "too difficult to take sides," "unclear,"
etc. etc. etc.
In their eyes, there is no murderous regime, no Russian/Hezbollah
imperialist invasion, no self-organization by the Syrian masses.
As Lukacs once noted:
"For the average man first sees the proletarian revolution when the
working masses are already fighting on the barricades, and – if he
happens also to have enjoyed a vulgar-Marxist education – not even then"
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/1924/lenin/ch01.htm
Different times, different situations, but striking analogies...
JA
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