[lbo-talk] Libya

[Wojtek S]

Marv: "I would say we do have a dog in this fight - not the ruling
regime nor the bourgeois leadership of the democratic opposition, but
the workers, students, small propertyholders, mutinous soldiers, and
unemployed who constitute its rank and file"

[WS:] Similar elements also supported Khomeini's revolution in Iran
against a pretty rotten and murderous Western stooge. And look what
happened to them.  This part of the world has a history of rotten
elites putting democratic or populist storefronts to legitimate their
power grab.  Supporting these "human shields" is not the same as
supporting the broader movements and grey eminences that hide behind
their backs.

Wojtek