Every communist/Marxist needs to read this.There is also much class oppression behind the situation in Syria.
https://cco.ndu.edu/Portals/96/Documents/prism/prism_4-syria/The_Rise_Of_Syrias_Urban_Poor.pdf > > Nowhere was Syria’s expanding wealth more clearly denied than to the > residents of its burgeoning suburbs. Mojahed Ghadbian, a young activist > now based in the United States, watched the posh developments of rich new > Damascus neighborhoods from Al Tal, a northern suburb of the capital. He > remembers his parents’ childhood stories of raising livestock. Rare then > was the trip to the city itself. Today, these burgeoning suburbs bleed > into city life. The first protest of the Syrian revolution occurred on > February 17, 2011 in the heart of Damascus.5 But residents of Douma, a > bluecollar Sunni Muslim suburb, not Damascenes, were the participants. > “The reality of this revolution,” says Mojahed, “is that the people who > started it did not have economic opportunities that those close to the > regime did. They did not have the wasta (influence) to get a good job, nor > did they have the baksheesh (bribe money) to buy one, either.”The sheer > mass of new urban migrants makes them impossible to assimilate smoothly. > Instead, they transform large swaths of Syria’s cities into stagnant, > transplanted neighborhoods of urban villagers.I n Ta d a m o n , a n e i g > h b o r h o o d o f Damascus, people were considered criminals and > homeless. “These were the projects,” said one activist. “You don’t start a > revolution from these places.” For these communities, the Syrian > revolution is not about new governments; it is about the economy. Their > frustrations are the same ones that drove Mohamed Bouazizi to > self-immolate in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, on December 17, 2010. Civil > activists were prominent while the revolution remained peaceful, but they > have been sidelined by this mass of urban poor who now drive the violent > conflict. “Syria had been emptied of most of its peaceful activists,” > confirms an anonymous writer in Syria. Unlike such activists, Syria’s > urban poor cannot leave. Armed groups take advantage of neighborhoods like > Tadamon by providing residents with jobs, services, and basic necessities. The authors also point blame at the international aid community for giving up on Syria,much as they have, in Iraq, Sudan, and Libya, with Jihadist groups of various stripes stepping in to fill the void. See also. https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20210315-syria-s-impotent-opposition-consistently-fails-to-provide-any-threat-to-assad https://tcf.org/content/report/assads-enemies-gave-syrian-opposition/?agreed=1 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#7984): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/7984 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/81995738/21656 -=-=- 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. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
