On a sunny Saturday in Harvard Square, there were East Turkestan protesters waving flags and trying to get us to chant, in favor of a nationalist movement on the other side of the globe we know nothing about.  I didn't poke around to work out if they were one of the pro-Taliban groups or not, but certainly pro-independence.  Just down the road, there's Revolution Books, a place to get the writings of the american Maoist Bob Avakian, who thinks it's all been downhill in China since 1976.  China can't do anything right in Harvard Square.  I wish I'd thought to ask them what they thought of each other.  In between, as always, were the LaRouchies, who somehow manage to bother me the most viscerally.  they are most transparently delusional.  You can see why revolutions don't happen.  Apart from imperialism being bad, I'm not sure there's anything the three groups would agree on.  I suppose I should give LaRouchies credit for not wanting to kill anybody. It may be simply that I identify as english just enough to resent them using anti-britishness as a polite cover for anti-semitism, so the hatred at the center of it is more apparent to me. The Uyghurs have a certain moral standing from oppression, and the Maoists somehow are less urgent about the need to remake the world, sitting up in their bookstore, rather than on the sidewalk. _
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