[lbo-talk] The Nation anguishes about AP

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 10/9/06, Michael Pugliese <michael.098762001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.versobooks.com/books/tuvwxyz/w-titles/wood_t_chechnya.shtml
> An eloquent case for independence for Europe's forgotten colony
>
> Since the end of the Cold War, Chechnya has suffered two full-scale
> Russian military assaults, and is now in the seventh year of a brutal
> occupation. The casualties remain largely uncounted, and the
> fundamental issues at stake are routinely sidestepped in Russia and in
> the West. In this powerful argument for Chechen self-determination,
> Tony Wood considers Russo-Chechen relations over the past century and
> a half, as well as the fate of the region since the fall of the Soviet
> Union. The Case for Chechnya sharply criticizes the role of Western
> nations in their struggle, and lays bare the weakness—and
> shamefulness—of the arguments used to deny the Chechens' right to
> sovereignty.
>
> "A passionate and eloquent case for Chechen statehood, well researched
> and reasoned. Whatever one thinks of state sovereignty these days,
> this political project demands serious engagement, and his
> humanitarian concerns cannot be ignored." — Georgi Derluguian, author
> of Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus
>
> Tony Wood is Assistant Editor at New Left Review; his work has
> appeared in the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of
> Books, among other periodicals.

The book is still unpublished (forthcoming in 2007), according to the
Verso Web site, but you can read Tony Wood's case for Chechnya at
<http://www.newleftreview.net/?page=article&view=2533>.

It's interesting that, whenever Western leftists back Islamists at
all, they always pick the most unpromising ones!  :->

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