Judging from the above, we have so little common ground there's not much point in pursuing this debate. What "united front" are you talking about? What was the "socialist" camp and what were the gains? I didn't think there was anyone around still peddling this brand of politics. But anyway...by 1939 a combination of fascist repression and Stalinist purges had rooted out the last remnants of the conscious working class elements remaining from the post WW1 revolutionary period. Most people regard the Spanish Civil war as the great watershed.
>There is an imperialist policy of appeasement as well as an imperialist
>policy of war. Russell is tacitly supporting the former, while pretending
>there is no possibility of international action protecting the Chechens in
>the way the people of East Timor were protected. Certainly no pure marxist
>way, but what is pure marxism, except idealism?
So we're back to social patriotic crap about appeasement! Apparently if I'm not with you and your civil society-great power humanitatian alliance [with its "imperialist policy of war"] then I must be with Yeltsin! Go wave your white feathers and your Union Jack somewhere else.