"Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
"Within the culture of Arab politics Saddam is a very good leader and politician, perhaps even a statemen. He stands head and shoulder above
many others and a promoter of pan-Arabism. Modern Iraq owed a lot to his leadership, including liberation of women."
RESPONSE:
Tihs is an extraodrindary remark, and appears to acceptable to this mailing group as judged by Nestor's remark.
Saddam was (no longer is) a representative of a certain progressive faction - which ML-ists woudl be happy to call a nascent national borugeoisie. In that capacity, he had a certain progressive stance.
Within that capacity, it is not suprising that he butchered the worker, peasant, and (revisionist) Communist party stalwarts.
The nuanced 'within the Arab world' - does not adequately rehabilitate this butcher.
I have watched some of the dicourses here with some interest. From justifying present day China as 'socialist' - to supporting Saddam in his glory days.
My eloquence does not match that of those who can parse the necessary distinctions between this type of 'socialism' from 'capitalism'.
Hari Kumar