LP: "When the protests erupted in Syria in 2011, I tried to get as much information as possible about the social and economic conditions that spurred people into action."
Good advice. However, his post quotes one paragraph from an article about the growth in Syria of a wealthy stratum based on close, corrupting ties to the state. That's it. Nothing about the class composition of the country, nothing about the more basic relationships of exploitation in Syria, and nothing about the agricultural-industrial ratio nor the ratio of production for subsistence and for the market. After that, the post dumps several thousand words on the reader of he said, she said about who used gas in Syria and similar matters, which journalistic articles are reliable and which not, etc. Proof that Marxism, too, can be trivialized. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
