Re: marxism-digest V1 #6481

[Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby@xxxxxx>]

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From: yoshie

> The way some folks are speaking here, though, I just have to wonder
> if they have any serious interest in expanding the solidarity
> movement, including the divestment wing of it.  We can't help
> Palestinians at all by only preaching to the Marxist choir, can we?
> - --
> Yoshie

Your position on how to speak on behalf of Palestinian tactics, while
*at the same time* not being able to explain your position on the
Settler State, further combined with this very revealing point above has
me truly worried about just how utterly opportunist you are getting.

The cry "I want to be relevant" always accompanies severing oneself from
principle, a fate I am certain is beneath your own track record, and
something I truly hope you will climb back from.

Cohn-Bendit, Tom Hayden and many former revolutionaries (or even
principled social democrats such as the Green Party of Germany) became
relevant, and became part of the problem in one fell swoop.

Where was it stated by _anyone_ that they make attacks on civilians a
central plank of anything? When a suicide bomb goes off it's very simple
to state that all loss of life in the conflict stems from the original
1948 massacres and colonial invasion. Nothing else is accurate, so it
can only be opportunism and a very disappointing version at that.

Macdonald



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