Re: [Marxism] Decisive showdown

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nestor Gorojovsky wrote:
>
>
> What if, against all expectations, this unity finally ends up with a
> return of Ba'ath to leadership?  I would not rule this possibility
> out.  I would rather be more reassured if a new, bolder and more
> "socialist" leadership brings the Arab peoples to a new level of
> political struggle.  But let us for a second think of the possibility
> that Ba'ath _does_ recover the leading role.
>
> Will you, and others on this list, be ready to raise your cup to that
> kind of resistence, Gary my dear friend?

Modern nations tend to emerge only from civil war (or wars). When that
struggle is muffled in one way or another (especially  by outside force)
the results tend to be unpleasant. A key task of u.s. leftists at least
is simply to oppose u.s. intervention, anywhere, for any reason, by any
means. I myself do not speculate much on internal forces in other
nations, but I do believe that the longer u.s. forces remain in Iraq,
the greater will be the internal chaos and bloodshed in that nation when
those forces finally are forced to leave.

The subject line for this thread is probably misleading. "Decisive
showdowns" are rare, are frequently reversed and re-reversed, and
ultimately are only seen looking backwards.

Carrol


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