interestingly, Bebel was a founder of the SPD 130 years ago -- plus ca change, plus ca la meme chose
-- adam
> On 9/23/05, Adam Souzis <adamsz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 9/23/05, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > --- Adam Souzis <adamsz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > thanks for translating that, it was quite interesting.
> > > >From a distance
> > > the PDS' move toward reactionary, racist nationalism
> > > seems part and
> > > parcel with other ex-Communists parties across former
> > > eastern bloc and
> > > Soviet states.
> > >
> > > ---
> > >
> > > Strictly speaking race and racism (as opposed to
> > > chauvinism or ethnic animosity) are close to being
> > > meaningless concepts in most of the former Soviet
> > > states. It's like talking about racism in ancient
> > > Rome. Race is a European/North American meme. Anyway,
> > > since the CPs' electorate is the disenfranchised, and
> > > since the disenfranchised tend to be chauvinistic, it
> > > is hardly surprising.
> >
> > yes, i was using the term racist loosely -- "nativist" would have been
> > more precise. Just saying "chauvinistic" seems too broad a term to me
> > unless it has some nuance i'm not aware of.
> >
> > And yes, its not too surprising. Wasn't it Lenin himself who said
> > anti-semitism is the communism of the ignorant?
> >
> > -- adam
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> Michael Pugliese
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