----- Original Message ---- From: Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> To: LBO <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>; Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition <marxism at greenhouse.economics.utah.edu>; Progressive Economics <pen-l at lists.csuchico.edu> Sent: Wed, June 8, 2011 3:45:46 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Todd Gitlin: the most pompous ass ever?
"[I]t now looks as though—fingers crossed—a critical mass of Palestinians may, at last, be getting the point. When they blow people up, they manufacture panic and hatred, and lock themselves up. They forfeit the initiative. When they act en masse with what Gandhi called satyagraha, soul force, they seize the initiative. If the Palestinian national movement had begun with disciplined nonviolence, it would have achieved statehood by now. That said, much better late than never."
http://972mag.com/can-nonviolence-move-the-next-century
Anyone failing to understand why this dripping racist condescension is entirely baseless might consider reading Mazin Qumsiyeh's Popular Resistance in Palestine. But in the meantime, or in lieu of that, please avoid any attempts to feign expertise on the topic.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað." ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk