Re: Left in Crisis

[ravi <ravi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 9, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:
> > I'd qualify Gray's remark: those who may be properly called
> > "Islamo-Leninists" are those Islamists, such as the Islamists of
> > Iran,
> > Hizballah, and Hamas, who have the capacity to build mass
> > organizations of popular classes for their own national projects
> > inflected with populism and anti-imperialism, not to be confused, for
> > instance, with terrorist cells of Al-Qaeda-type Islamism.
>
> Once upon a time Hamas was setting off bombs in nursing homes, weren't
> they? They were generating so much bad publicity that Yoshie herself
> burned up the Internet trying to get the movement to denounce them.
> I am
> not sure which Yoshie was more off-base.



Neither has to be. The solution to the paradox is found in the first
few words of your post: "Once upon a time Hamas...".

       --ravi