RE: From my window

[Ben Pincas <benpincas@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Mark Lause wrote:

> My windows pretty clear.  If I were comparing the feebleness of western
> Marxist Left to the rising tide of the jihad, I'd give them another go
> with the Windex.
>

I agree. Good that you used the conditional in your sentence.

I see no Jihad, but something more familiar and fundamental.

We see people fightng against an occupation force - we could try gleening 
comparisons out of the writings of Trotsky about China. In those writings, 
Trotsky also reminds us to examine the class nature of Iraqi society to see if 
and where there is any support for for the occupiers.

But let us not forget to look at the matter regionally and globally.

Indeed, I was imagining last night a scenario in which the USuk manages or 
tries to set up a society in Iarq with structures similar to Venezuela - a rich 
bourgeoise class with the  masses below.

Saddam had setup a society with much state intervention - something which 
Iraqis have said on TV that they appreciated. Thus the occupiers have a long 
way to go, even if they manage to master the security situation.

Indeed, if the USuk manage to increase their support, it would turn the 
scenario of a people fighting against an occupier into the scenario of a civil 
war.

I am sure the occupiers would actually prefer such a scenario because that 
appeals to their experience in divide and rule. Indeed, they are already trying 
that in their propaganda broadcasts. Hence the insistance that the resistance 
consists only of old Saddam supporters and "foreigners".

Their use of the word "foreigners" though has to be only for western 
consumption since this nation state mentality is not so firmly established as 
it is here in the west.

Of course, it was Rumsfeld who tried to divide and rule in the EU by his use of 
the terms "old" and "new" Europe.

No, I see no Jihad unless, of course, you are arabising a Marxist term.

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