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On 9/13/17 9:54 PM, Andrew Stewart via Marxism wrote:
May I present Exhibit A: antiwar.com If you oppose war you are promoting a Leftist position.
A "leftist" position? By that criterion, Charles Lindbergh was a leftist because he opposed intervention in 1940. But what kind of leftism is it that is based on sympathies for Hitler? Lindbergh was to Hitler as people like Vanessa Beeley and Tim Anderson are to Assad. We are interested in revolutionaries, not "leftists". We are obligated as Marxists to take the side of revolutionary forces in Syria even though they have been marginalized by 6 years of scorched earth tactics by the regime and reactionary backing of Islamists from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey. I am not particularly interested anyhow in "leftists". The masked idiots who punched out photographers in Berkeley are on the left but they are also an obstacle to building the kind of left we need. We need to build a revolutionary socialist movement, not some misbegotten "leftist" movement that keeps shooting itself in the foot. I lived through that with the Weathermen, the Maoist idiots and the Trotskyist cults of one sort of another 45 years ago. Let the dead bury the dead.
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