[lbo-talk] Lukashenko & Belarus

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Mon Apr 28 19:51:49 PDT 2003


On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, apropos Lukashenko bashing,


> "The Prague racket"
>
> John Laughland
> Friday November 22, 2002
> The Guardian

was quoted defending Luk as one of the few non-sellouts in Eastern Europe who is reviled because of it.

Does anyone know anything about John Laughland? He often writes interesting articles in the Guardian attacking the neoliberal consensus on things like the ICC and Kosovo. But the Amazon summaries of his 2000 book _The Tainted Source_ makes it look as if he's arguing that the Nazis were the original globalists, and that therefore all desires to transcend the nation state should be presumed to be tainted with fascism. I haven't ever heard of such a point of view before, especially not from someone who is articulate and publishes in respectable venues. Is he some kind of extreme save-the-pounder? Are there more like him out there?

Michael



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