So having dropped 'charges' over the last weeks, levelled at me first regarding Syria; then being a pro-Putinite; Duane now accuses me that I " help spread the Nazi trope 3 days after the invasion ".
This is the 'method' of picking out quotes completely out of context. It is nothing more than the method of an ideologue with a prior agenda. It cannot be reasoned with. For others who are able to read a little bit more carefully - the opening paragraphs here provide the general line I have taken: "We recently reviewed the stand-off in the borders around Ukraine between the USA- NATO, European Union, Ukraine and Russia. 1 However we note disturbing signs of an opportunist support for Russia from some sections of the Marxist left. They prompt these theses to spur potential debates at this critical time – within Marxist circles. 1. In today’s world, any war is unlikely to be a localized affair. It inevitably becomes part of the international rivalry between the imperialist nations. As these become wars for power and markets - whatever was the initial spur - they become unjust wars between (at least) two sides. In such unjust wars, Lenin points out that: “It is the duty of the socialists of every country to wage an unrelenting struggle against the chauvinism and patriotism of their own country (and not only of the enemy)”. 2 It follows that while the socialists of every ‘home’ country must to the maximum, struggle against jingoistic war-fury of their own country, they must also expose the chauvinism of the ‘enemy’. Despite this injunction, at the present time as trumpets blare in Europe and Ukraine, many Marxists and socialists in the Western imperialist heart-lands one-sidedly emphasise the belligerence of only their own ‘home’ countries. For example in the USA, the UK or Germany. Many are reluctant to state the Putin government has had any role in this current escalated stand-off. " at https://mlcurrents.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/theses-ukraine.pdf I would contend that Filan's line consists of ignoring their country's (I think that is the USA) role in fostering the unjust war on Ukraine. To defend Ukraine's rights and independence against an imperialist invasion, is not to ignore Zelensky and 'FU Victoria Nuland'. H -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#33772): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/33772 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109752225/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
