Re: [Marxism] The Left and Support For Islamic Resistance

[JC Helary <brandelune@xxxxxxxxx>]

On mardi 17 févr. 09, at 00:38, Shane Mage wrote:

>
> On Feb 16, 2009, at 4:35 AM, Jscotlive@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> ...dictating to a colonial people as to  what
>> constitutes the correct and proper way to resist...
>
> It cannot be right to identify a "people" with a faction within it.
> When a faction identifies itself with a whole people, and declares
> *its* activity to be *the* "resistance" of the "people" it sets up a
> dynamic that almost always leads to failure and , in its rare
> successes, leads to terrible forms of dictatorship.  Especially so
> when that "resistance" has been fostered from the beginning by the
> colonial power and maintained by that colonial power's suppression of
> other, more representative, factions and other, effective, forms of
> resistance.

Thank you for the reality check.




Jean-Christophe Helary


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