[lbo-talk] On Islamic radicalism and the left by Don Hamerquist

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Aug 17 10:57:42 PDT 2006


On Aug 17, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Eric Beck wrote:


> But no one really knows what their aims are, right? The danger here
> for the left it seems to me--besides the always-present dangers of
> practicing statecraft--is precisely in repeating the runup to the
> Iranian revolution, where the theocrats are seen as "one of us"* or
> a neutral actor in the revolutionary consortium but things turn out
> much differently when the revolution obtains power.

Except that unlike Iran in the late 70s, Lebanon is not in a pre- revolutionary situation.



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