Re: Halliday on the left & Islamists
On Apr 11, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Lenin’s Tomb wrote:
On 4/11/07, Doug Henwood dhenwood@panix.com wrote:
[From the SA Debate list. Fred Halliday can be pretty noxious, but there’s some useful history here.
It’s terrible history, actually:
http://leninology.blogspot.com/2007/02/ex-communism-of-fools.html
So leftists have never been beheaded by Islamists who turned on them?
This is true: “The first is that Halliday appears to have forgotten a
deeper and more unambiguous conflict between imperialism and the
left….” But it seems that you want to forget all the problems in
making alliances with people simply on the basis of anti-imperialism.
I’m just editing an interview with Hamid Dabashi in which he recalls
Iranians’ fondness for Germans in the run-up to WW II, because the
Germans made a lot of anti-British noises.
Doug