[lbo-talk] Some quotes on Syria

[John Wesley]

The old CPUSA would have staunchly defended the position of the USSR, which called for full and unconditional support of the Assad regime.  In 1967 and  in1973, the USSR was almost ready to launch World War III to protect that regime.
Mike G.

El pueblo armado jamas sera aplastado!

 

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 From: Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com>
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org 
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Some quotes on Syria

  
DRR: "I don't blame ordinary Syrians for
picking up guns to defend themselves against a monstrous regime, but
in the long-term, hope lies in the unarmed protesters who continue to
defy the regime's thugs and march in Syria's streets."

[WS:] Make no mistake, my sympathies are with the protesters, not with
their butchers.  But that does not mean that there are no some very
unsavory forces behind them, who no doubt will try to grab power as
soon as Assad's government falls.  It has been a tragedy of many mass
movements - and what makes it even more tragic today that there are no
institutional progressive forces (an equivalent of the old CP if you
will) on which protest movements can rely to run the state.

And also do not forget that today's butchers started as progressive
forces some 50 years ago.

-- 
Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."
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