Re: meiksins-wood article

["Mark Jones" <jones118@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Louis Proyect" <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>

>The problem is that neither Doug nor Ellen has a
> grounding in Leninist politics so the question of what they mean by
> fighting on the terrain of the national state is open to question.

a propos cop-outs I've jusrt been reading an egregious article about Putin's
Russia and US policy, in the current Nation by its editor (?) Katrina vanden
Heuvel. It's relevant that her partner is eminent sovietologist and
Bukharin-biograpger, Stephen Cohen. The long and short of it is that it is
time to confer some kind of 'legitimacy' on the post-Soviet Russian regime.
Thus Nation like the rest of the mainstream media has decided to adopt and
sanctify the results of the counter-revolution and the grand larceny of
state assets by the 'oligarchs'. This is a terrible shame, innit? But it's
what you can expect, I guess.

Mark Jones