[lbo-talk] Taliban destroy coed school

Travis Fast tfast at yorku.ca
Mon Jan 9 06:29:49 PST 2006


I guess that is why the US state supported the taliban and the glorious Afgan resistance during the eighties: Lefty utopians with family values?

TF

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


>Chris:
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>>All hail the glorious anti-imperialist fighters of the Afghan
>>resistance!
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>Yep. People often do not realize that many Islamic societies are actually
>very egalitarian - very little hierarchy, high populist fervor, few formal
>institutions, no concept of state, strong sentiments against speculation,
>usury and capitalist profiteering, vehemently anti-Western, no porn,
>prostitution or kindred immorality -- seems like the heaven for some utopian
>lefties.
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>Wojtek
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