[lbo-talk] A Day When Mahdi Army Showed Its Other Side

boddi satva lbo.boddi at gmail.com
Mon Nov 27 22:53:48 PST 2006



> > Social democracy? Eh? Could you elaborate on that? Social democracy
> > to me is secular and gender-egalitarian. Political Islam is the
> > opposite.
>
> Why don't you go check for yourself in South Lebanon and in the Bekaa
> Valley ?
>
> Isn't it about time you leave your NY office and see with your own
> eyes what these people are fighting for ?
>
> One thing _for_ "political Islam" is that at least is _is_ political.
> Or maybe the west should choose better adjectives to vilify the
> "opposite" of what it stands for ?
>

If political Islam succeeds, there will be tragic, pre-capitalist levels of injustice and repression. Is there a single counter-example? Is ***IRAN*** meant to be some sort of counter-example? Yoshie seems to be hinting that she thinks it is.

Do I REALLY have to post the pictures of the two Iranian BOYS weeping as they are about to be hanged for kissing each other? Really?

People search, rightly, for an answer - a protest - to capitalism, particularly those who hate capitalism because it will not even deign to oppress them, but leaves them instead to live and die like animals, ostracized, un-persons. And many, many of them have found bad answers. Islamism is just a REALLY bad answer - not so bad as the worst excesses of Stalinism or "National Socialism" - but very bad.

Look, Karl Marx made it PERFECTLY CLEAR, capitalism is a fantastic, wonderful system compared with the feudal nightmare that preceded it. It's also immoral, violent and systematically cruel and thus we have an obligation to revolutionize it. But not everyone who calls themselves "revolutionary" deserves our reflexive support. The reactionaries who mislead working people are destructive and political Islam is a movement of reactionaries - or at the very least a reactionary movement.

Let's end this absurdity. The American-Israeli Neo-Conservative, Neo-religious Strategy of Chaos is horrifying. Of course we want people to oppose it. But a lot of the people who DO oppose it are barbarians, unworthy of support. Stop the knee-jerk craziness.

boddi



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