[lbo-talk] Yoshie: "dialogue" takes listening on your part, too

[Doug Henwood]

[I can't read everything that goes by, but I've read enough of  
Yoshie's writings on Iran to know that I disagree with them. And I  
find it distressing to see a branch of MR, a publication with a long  
history of secularism and Marxism, be used as a transmission belt for  
apologetics for a reactionary theocratic regime. Yeah, so it's  
sweetened with a bit of populist economics, but populist economics  
are mostly pretty dodgy, as most Marxist economists would be eager to  
show.]

Begin forwarded message:


> From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <critical.montages at gmail.com>
> Date: July 10, 2006 7:31:35 PM EDT
> To: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Cc: "Jim Devine" <jdevine03 at gmail.com>, "Carrol Cox"  
> <cbcox at ilstu.edu>,  "Chris Doss" <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: "dialogue" takes listening on your part, too
>
> Dear Doug:
>
> <blockquote>On Jul 10, 2006, at 3:10 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>> Now, I'm signing off again.
>
> Ah, dialogue.
>
> <http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/11/21/iran12072.htm>
>
> Iran: Two More Executions for Homosexual Conduct
>
> (New York, November 22, 2005) – Iran's execution of two men last week
> for homosexual conduct highlights a pattern of persecution of gay men
> that stands in stark violation of the rights to life and privacy,
> Human Rights Watch said today.</blockquote>
>
> What you posted is exactly the same thing as what Steven L. Robinson
> posted on June 28
> <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of- 
> Mon-20060626/041028.html>,
> to which I responded on the same day:
> <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of- 
> Mon-20060626/041031.html>.
>
> You are posting it again, as if I had never said anything about it,
> however.  It's clear that you aren't interested in what I actually
> said.
>
> It takes two to dialogue, but you can't listen and respond except to a
> person who doesn't disagree with you.  That's why I unsubbed from
> LBO-talk and won't be coming back as a regular poster.  Whatever I say
> there, I get no considered response from you that takes into account
> the content of my writing in any way whatsoever.  It's like I don't
> exist as far as you are concerned.
>
> You can post this to LBO-talk if you like, but you don't have to feel
> obligated to do so.
>
> I'm cc'ing this note to Jim, Carrol, and Chris because they asked me
> why I unsubbed.
> -- 
> Yoshie
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