www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote:
>No one is idealising Hezbollah. Hezbollah is an
>Islamist movement with a strong history of repelling
>Israeli aggression.
Well, perhaps. And National Socialist Germany also followed a policy of fighting the British empire, and nurtured early Islamist movements which pursued the same aims.
It's kind of fascinating, in a weird way, how the collapse of the state-run commodity producing social forms in Eastern Europe and Russia have had this disorienting and regressive impact upon the Leninist formations in the west.
I suppose that the "Anti-Imperialist" ideology associated with those regimes lives on long past its period of historical relevance, but without the anchoring that those societies provided. All that's left is this sort of atavistic posturing, raising seemingly confrontational slogans in support of reactionary movements for whom communists are declared enemies.
Whereas the neo-conservative witch-hunters like David Horowitz try to show an alleged harboring of fascist sympathies by leftists, I think it's really more a frustrated cry of rage at the social marginality of communist ideas.
Israel is a well-armed state which has dealt with these sort of attacks before, so I don't think it needs any sort of well-wishing. Once it has either flattened Lebanon (with the horrible death and carnage that entails) or driven Hezbollah into marginality, our well-meaning leftist Gutmenschen will find some other slogans in support of some other formation somewhere on the earth to serve as a projecting surface.
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