[Marxism] The Left and Support For Islamic Resistance

[S. Artesian]

Yeah, well unlike the Spanish guerrillas, I don't hear anyone in Palestine 
proclaiming,  "Long Live the Chains!"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shane Mage" <shmage at pipeline.com>
To: <sartesian at earthlink.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Marxism] The Left and Support For Islamic Resistance


>
> I'm not sure I understand this, but it seems to imply support for
> "resistance," however reactionary, everywhere and always.  Presumably,
> therefore, the endorsement is only for *anti-Imperial* resistance.
> Even so, that position leads to some weird stances.  Consider the
> origin of the word *guerrilla*.  It derives from the  resistance
> movement, a movement with considerable popular support, organized by
> the most reactionary forces in Europe--the Spanish monarchists and
> Catholic Church--against the occupying French Empire of Napoleon I.
> Their success was the beginning of the triumph of the Holy Alliance
> and the final political defeat of the French Revolution.  I certainly
> would not join that pseudo-progressive Ludwig van Beethoven in
> celebrating "Wellington's
>  Victory!"
>
>
> Shane Mage
>
>> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
>> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
>> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>>
>> Herakleitos of Ephesos
>
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