[lbo-talk] Iraqi communists on "resistance"

Grant Lee grantlee at iinet.net.au
Fri Feb 13 10:30:42 PST 2004


Yoshie said:


> The Iraqi Communist Party has no future -- it not only fails to lead
> street demonstrations to the occupation:
>
> Lacking in numerical strength, it has ended up becoming the rearguard
> even on the electoral front within the Iraqi Governing Council:

And so the answer is Shi'ite Islamism or Ba'ath nationalism? Only if you aren't picky about your anti-imperialists. But I am -- for all the good it will do anyone -- and I don't think so.

John Lacny has already pointed out how the ICP has support where it _really_ counts --- in the workplaces. They also appear to have a appreciation of what it would take to have a fully developed, modern communist society, as opposed to the pissant varieties of pseudo-socialism in place in (Ba'athist) Syria or (Shi'ite Islamist) Iran.

Grant.



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