Re: [Marxism] The Left and Support For Islamic Resistance - an unsatisfying response

[Ruthless Critic of All that Exists <ok.president+nbsy@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 12:46 PM, <Dbachmozart@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> During WW 2, there was no such void. There was a strong left secular
> resistance taking on the Nazi occupiers. But had there been no meaningful
> left,  if
> that resistance had instead been as dominated by the Catholic Church as
> today's anti imperialist resistance in the Arab world is by religious
> Muslims,  it
> would have been the duty of all those opposed to the occupiers to support
> and
> seek to become part of that resistance, even if we had to pose as
> Catholics,
> while not abandoning our revolutionary perspectives.


Posing of any kind is highly antithetical to Marxism. The Marxists' goal is
ever-increasing human freedom, and the Marxists' method is the exposition of
truth, undertaken by means of ruthless criticism of all that exists.

Poseurs have no place within Marxist praxis.
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