[lbo-talk] We're all irrelevant

[Tahir Wood]

>>> <lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org> 07/24/06 3:30 PM >>>
I suppose that the "Anti-Imperialist" ideology 
associated with those regimes lives on long past its
period of historical relevance, but without the
anchoring that those societies provided.  All that's
left is this sort of atavistic posturing, raising
seemingly confrontational slogans in support of
reactionary movements for whom communists are declared
enemies.

There's often more than a little narcissism involved too, as in the
case of a recently departed member of this list who has just got thrown
off Proyect's list too (don't worry she loves it, which is my point).
Her latest riposte to critical secular leftists is that the rulers of
Iran and similar countries have never heard of them. Won't someone who's
in touch with her tell her that these clerical types have indeed heard
of communists? They advocate our elimination and seek to do just that at
the first sniff of power. Yes, they have heard of us - and we're far
from irrelevant to them.
Tahir
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