Bolsheviks and Islam
This is a brief comment on an article in the SWP's Socialist Review about the Bolsheviks and Islam, by David Crouch. Although it refers to the early 1920s, and then the rise of Stalinism, the article is plainly a justification for the SWP's recent dalliances with MAB and the mosque. "At the Baku Congress of the Peoples of the East in September 1920," Crouch writes, "Russian Bolshevik leaders issued a call for a 'holy war' against Western imperialism. Two years later the Fourth Congress of the Communist International endorsed alliances with pan-Islamism against imperialism." (Comrades may have...