At 10:19 PM 12/3/2006, you wrote:
That, to me, is THE question today which the
theoreticians, still working off the Leninist model of
"anti-imperialism" have to answer. How much longer can
the international left be offering "critical support"'
or "military support" to the Taliban before it finds
itself, as so many times in the past, the ideological
midwife of a new reactionary constellation?
Loren
(reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
This is bizarre. A long rambling iconoclastic attack on Leninism that
is prefaced by an invitation: "I wrote the following reply, and
decided I'd be interested in broader feedback. Would you mind posting
this on your list serve?"
Goldner is not subscribed to pen-l and has never seemed interested in
"broader feedback" as far as I can tell. For all his council
communist animosity toward Leninists, he seems far more imperious
than Lenin or Trotsky at their worst. Over the past month or so, I
have been treated to one sweeping attack on Marxism or Leninism from
a variety of people. I put down my copy of Gabriel Kolko's crude
anti-Communism in "After Socialism", come into the living room to
check my email--only to discover that people like me are offering
"critical support" to the Taliban. I have nor heard more obnoxious
baiting on Fox Cable news. It is separated by six degrees from Bill
O'Reilly's "Do you want American to win in Iraq?" Well, I am opposed
to the US war on terror wherever it is taking place. If this means
"critical support" to the Taliban, so be it. With respect to offering
"military support" to the Taliban, I have no idea what the hell this
is supposed to mean. It sounds like something out of the Spartacist
League. If Goldner wants to go argue with them, somebody give him Bob
Malecki's email address. I am too busy to track it down.
