Re: [Marxism] As Trump shores up Assad's genocidal regime, America's hard left is cheering him on
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. * John Reimann -- I have no idea who Michael is. I'm the guy who wrote what you quoted. I apologize for mis-characterizing your political background. Won't do it again. I know a couple of guys up here in Seattle from Syria solidarity work who seem to be close co-thinkers of yours, just guessing from cross-posts and such, and they are from that background, although many many years ago. I extrapolated from what I know of them to you. Interestingly, I came to many of my conclusions about sect life after I became really good friends, personally and politically, with a guy who was with one of the pro-Albanian groups. What I discovered was that apparently totally opposite sorts of politics -- let's call them Hoxhaite and Trotskyite -- existed in organizations that were FUNCTIONALLY exactly the same, with the exact same problems of lack of internal democracy, a leadership with a death grip on power, yada yada yada. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] As Trump shores up Assad's genocidal regime, America's hard left is cheering him on
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. * On July 21, a letter appeared which quoted "Michael" who was commenting on the position of different socialists regarding Assad. He wrote: *"On the other hand, as Marxmail subscribers know, the Oakland Socialistshave an excellent take on Syria despite having come from a Hoxhaitebackground. Hoxha, you may remember, attacked both China and Russia (then**the Soviet Union) for insufficient Stalinism."* I am assuming Michael is referring to oaklandsocialist.com, the blog site which I founded and am the chief writer for. I am not now, nor have I ever been a Hoxhaite. I started out as a union activist and then was one of the founding members of "Labor Militant", which was the predecessor to Socialist Alternative. A small group of us - myself included - were expelled in the mid '90s from that group. I am curious where Michael got the impression that I was at one time a supporter of Hoxha. John Reimann -- "No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them." Asata Shakur Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com and // www.facebook.com/WorkersIntlNetwork?ref=stream _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
