Re: why?

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> On 11/5/06, Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > why is "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" logic so popular??
>
> The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend.  But it is not true
> that the enemy of my enemy is never my friend.  It's really simple: it
> all depends.

I think it is time to introduce one of the main lessons I derived from
extensive consideration (in the '70s & '80s) of the Chinese Revolution:
Stack Contradictions in the Right Order.

And a corollary from that: At any given time, most contradictions cannot
be resolved.

And among those contradictions that cannot (and should not be) resolved
now are the internal contradictions of the middle east and south asia.
(Roughly, Muslim &/or Arab nations.)

The people who are jumping all over Yoshie simply cannot stand leaving
those contradictions alone -- that is they are still infected with the
main political illness of the 1960s: A lust for internal harmony, for
coherence of feeling, thought and action. But that is not possible under
capitalism, and anyone who can't let go of the urge will end up either a
complete cynic or a hippie.

Carrol