From: Paul Cockshott (wpc@DCS.GLA.AC.UK)
Date: Thu Dec 30 2004 - 05:55:25 EST
When this point was first made to me about 1990 by old comrades from the Candian Party of Labour, who had switched to support for the Islamic Revolution in Iran, I was skeptical. Now it is pretty obvious. They said that in the middle east is was now the Islamic radicals who were the voice of the dispossesed. This clearly had some truth in it. We should reflect on the fact that the scientific validity of Marxist economic theories are not all that strongly correlated to its success as a social movement. The success of a movement depends on it being able to offer millenarian hope. With the defeat of the USSR that prospect lost credibility and it now seems no more plausible than the prospects painted by Islamic radicals. -----Original Message-----
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