Have you read the 18th Brumaire lately, Louis? Or ever? Just because "millions of ordinary people take to the street" doesn't ratify the eventual outcome.
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > (Just posted as a comment on my blog) > > It's about time someone put an end to the 'fascist coup' nonsense > peddled first by the Russian government and Ukrainian Communist Party > and then by our leftists, which was a crazy reminder of Soviet > propaganda duping the western left, and how easy that was. You also > pretty much put an end to the even wilder assertion that Maidan was > nothing but a western-engineered fake uprising, where Ukrainians > robotically took to the streets at the behest of NGOs (or something). > The latest article by the Autonomous Workers Union, a Ukrainian groups, > says if anything it was more like a neoliberal coup (but, internal) > while like you stressing how Svoboda and RS have very little popular > support. But the uprising wasn't 'staged' by neoliberals - millions of > ordinary people took to the streets on their own to protest a corrupt > government. That's the most insulting part about the reaction of 'the > left' - that all those people and their efforts to oust a president > should be completely dismissed. > > --Stepan Petrichenko > > ==== > > I will trade the support of a thousand pro-Putin Western leftists for > every acknowledgement I get from someone like this. And that's that. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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