Hi Patrick " Are we picking up three lefty narratives here, as usual distinguishing between top-down geopolitics and bottom-up, social-struggle perspectives?"
I mean, I'm more than happy to represent the bottom-up, social struggle perspective, but of course my article also contained rather a lot of geopolitics, just that mine is actually fact-based, as opposed to the fantasies written up in campist geopolitical pieces. On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 5:31 PM Patrick Bond via groups.io <pbond= mail.ngo...@groups.io> wrote: > Are we picking up three lefty narratives here, as usual distinguishing > between top-down geopolitricks and bottom-up, social-struggle > perspectives? (or more or less?) > > 1) critique of yankees+Israel+Turkey behind-the-curtain manipulation of > 'rebels': e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl-vX1RBapo (Norton) and > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1f1T3jyeg8 (Marandi) > > 2) recognition that for yankee/Zionist interests, "the Assad regime and > HTS are almost equally bad," and instead emphasis on sectarian religious > infighting (weaking Assad's army commitment) plus weakened Iranian, > Hezbollah and Russian support for Assad that together provided a gap for > HTS, along with concern that what comes next is troubling due to > extreme-Islamic values of HTS and allies, and oppression of secular > democratic forces: e.g., > https://gilbert-achcar.net/what-is-happening-in-syria (Achcar) > > 3) a celebration of the role of popular will in overthrowing Assad, > giving us a generally-progressive, bottom-up success story > notwithstanding some dubious elements: e.g., > > https://theirantiimperialismandours.com/2024/12/07/the-syrian-revolution-returns-with-a-bang-extraordinary-collapse-of-the-genocidal-regime/ > (Karadjis) > > Thanks if you can correct me, comrades. > > > > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#33958): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/33958 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109944004/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
