“I pop up here to exercise my free speech rights.”
The pretentious and individualist lifestylism of your “leftism” is palpable, Louis. Next you’ll be proudly telling us that you’re here to exercise your Constitutional rights, as if such things mattered. You remind me of those NRA goons who march into a town when there’s been a gun-related massacre to parade around with their weapons, just because they “have the right to”. You made no pretense to actually bring up an actual argument; instead you went straight for (and celebrated) the I’m-doing-it-because-it-feels-good trope, which might be good enough for a bourgeois liberal, but seems kind of wanting in someone professing to be an “unrepentant Marxist”. It tinges you with a definite air of un-seriousness. That, and to whine about the Kremlin, of course, which is in keeping with the chime-in-with-US-imperialism reflex you seem to harbor.

Louis, just tell us: do you think that the US is “doing the right thing’ in its efforts against the Syrian government? (which, your insinuations and evasions to the contrary notwithstanding, they’ve been engaging in for the past five years. No, scratch that: they’ve been engaging in this from the early 1980s). Do you think that the US was doing the right thing in Libya? Given the (admittedly bad) choice between staying with Assad, at least for now (who, unfortunately for much of your narrative, does enjoy the support of many Syrians, certainly much more so than the clowns paraded around by the US and Europe as “the true representatives of the Syrian people”, and certainly preferred by many Syrian opposition people to the Saudi-backed Salafists who call for Alawites to be “sent to the grave”) and the feudal-religious forces that make up virtually the entire armed resistance (minus the Kurds), can you tell us why you keep on so consistently seeming to find common cause with imperialism by megaphoning the background chorus they use against Assad (with pretexts that serve only to bring disaster to other nations – consistent with imperialism, which has evidently disappeared from your calculus of events)? It’s odd how you seem so given to thinking that overthrowing governments and promoting jihadists isn’t the sort of thing imperialism does. You’ve mouthed off in the past about how “Assad’s barrel bombs” rather than American bombs are victimizing Syria’s people (ignoring Israel’s crucial support to Al Nusra and its bombing of “regime targets”; ignoring the approval that the US gave to Saudi Arabia and Qatar to arm the “rebels” under their auspices; ignoring the harm done to Syria’s health care system by US sanctions, and by itself a war crime by any reasonable measure; and ignoring the reports by even establishment media outlets about the CIA’s billion-dollar-a-year program to arm and train “rebels”). So America is apparently, in your book, simply engaged in an impeccable war against ISIS and which “isn’t victimizing the Syrian people”, but not the Syrian state. If anything, it’s crime is that it isn’t being forceful ENOUGH in seeking the overthrow of a strategic nuisance (in effect, that it isn’t being imperialistic enough). Please tell us how you think that imperialism works.
Please don’t get me wrong. I don’t like Assad or the Ba’ath Party; nor am I a “Stalinist”. I’m anti-imperialist, and what I am saying is that the narrative surrounding the war is utterly dripping with lies and distortions. I just marvel at your ability to always be on standby to act as yet another voice chiming in with the rhetoric that makes imperialist war possible.

The destruction of Syria, like Iraq, has been primarily an Israeli project, following the infamous Oded Yinon Plan, to destroy all Israel’s neighbours by deliberately fomenting internecine hatred and conflict between Sunni, Shia, Kurds, Christians, Druze etc. A truly Hitlerite crime, which is a bitter irony. Certainly Israel has mostly used stooges like the Wahhabist despotisms and its slave states, the USA, France, the UK etc, but the same hands are behind it all as wrote the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ as a blue-print for war between the West and Islam, and mobilised the kosher neo-conservatives of the PNAC to drive the USA onto one aggression after another.

I’m sorry, but that is Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Israel), in fact, one of the very worst Israel Firsters in the Congress.

In the early 20s the Pussy Riot harridans would have been earning their keep as ‘petit horizontales’.

Channeling the latter and your attempted cultural one-upmanship the phrase “all mouth and trousers” comes to mind.

I love how quickly the “pro-Kremlin” truncheon is brought to bear. How about “anti-neo-con.” You can hit me for one all day long if you like.

Ha. You have a point. Remember when the Sex Pistols were being ushered around the talk show circuit by a state department employee?
Neither do I.
Pussy Riot is about as authentic as k-pop.
Putting them on the same level as Mayakovsky is wonderful.