[Marxism] Hamas is hoping for an IDF ground operation

[sobuadhaigh at hushmail.com]

Jscotlive wrote:

>This is not the time for any critical observation. It is a time
>for solidarity. Marx was critical of the Paris Commune when it 
began.
>When it came  under siege he offered his unequivocal support for 
those
>struggling for their survival.

This is definitely the time for historical analysis which is 
critical
to find he way to the praxis that you seek. At the time Bakunin was 
the most
hunted man in Europe and anarchists everywhere were under the gun,
Marx never relented in his ongoing denunciation of Bakunin and 
anarchism.
Marxists take positions for their own reasons and they should never
surrender their duty to make an informed, critical analysis.

Do I support the right of the Palestinian people to armed struggle
for the defense of their communities against this murderous 
aggression?
Of course I do just as I supported the right of  Irish people to 
defend
Catholic neighborhoods in Belfast against the Unionist bigots who 
attacked
them in 1969. What’s more I supported the continuation of that 
armed struggle to
fulfill the  goal of a united Irish Republic. Do you think I ever 
gave
unconditional support to the Provos and Sinn Fein? The answer is an
emphatic no because if I did I would have been a nationalist 
cheerleader
and not a communist.

>The secular resistance of which you speak no longer exists. It was
>defeated due to both the corruption and mistakes of its  leadership
>and the efforts of Mossad.

Having conflated Hamas to equal Palestinian resistance you now try 
to
limit those forces committed to the original secular, vision of the 
Palestinian Revolution to the corrupt functionaries of Fatah. 
You are wrong. Comrades of the Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades are still 
in the field now as they have been since the militants of the PFLP 
began their armed struggle in 1967.

>Looking for a perfect secular, left leaning resistance at a time
>when  it does not exist in Palestine is merely an exercise is 
paternalism
>on the part  of those who would relegate Marxism to the status of 
dead theory,

No resistance, and no revolutionary struggle is perfect and I don't 
waste
time in the idealistic search for one. The Irish comrades who 
fought for a
socialist program for a untied Ireland did so as the Irish 
Republican Socialist
Party and the Irish National Liberation Army. Both in Ireland and 
in Palestine,
revolutionaries made mistakes and left much to criticize. However, 
in both 
countries there were courageous, heroic comrades who refused to 
allow their 
national struggle to be controlled by religious prejudice. One of 
the enduring 
legacies of Marxism, and the left in general, is the refusal to 
allow religion serve 
as the organizing principle of political life. That ideal should 
not change from 
crises to crises, or election to election.

Revolution until victory.

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