On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 11:46 AM, Dennis Brasky wrote: > > I think it's obvious who is being criticized here as the point of this > excellent essay- campists.
Indeed. To elaborate, this is what Fotopoulos wrote: > > This is campism in its purest and most degraded form — a worldview in > which history is flattened into two opposing blocs and all internal > contradictions are declared irrelevant by fiat. Your logic is > infantilizing: cheer for whoever happens to be punching the larger bully, > even if that same figure is simultaneously beating women, hanging > dissidents, and grinding workers into submission. In this schema, the > oppressed are no longer subjects of struggle but symbolic currency — > reduced to objectification — invoked only when their suffering can be > leveraged against Western villainy. > > From a theoretical standpoint, campism represents the return of an > unacknowledged realism — a residue of Cold War geopolitical thought > smuggled into left discourse under the banner of radicalism. States become > the primary agents of history. Power is measured by posture rather than > social relations. The internal composition of regimes disappears, replaced > by an external orientation that substitutes for analysis > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#40247): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/40247 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/117333480/21656 -=-=- 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: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
