Couldn't Iran simply be a reactionary tendency? Capitalists would happily ignore Iran's Islamism as they ignored Saudi Islamism. Their organizing philosophy is not a threat to capitalism.
boddi
On 11/28/06, Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion at mx6.tiki.ne.jp> wrote:
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> On 29 nov. 06, at 10:16, boddi satva wrote:
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> > In general terms, conservatives - whether in Iran or the U.S. - raise
> > "values" above the community those values are meant to serve. We on
> > the left raise up the community as the sovereign. Regimes based on the
> > old religions will never raise the community above God.
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> My mother used to systematically be in the "opposition". Under
> Giscard (that's as far as I remember), under Mitterand, under Chirac
> etc. It always struck me as the sanest choice. Because whoever is in
> place, is not in place to relieve us from capitalism but to make it
> either worse or "less worse".
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> From that I learned one thing: don't be picky about the tools you
> use to pressure who is in place. Because conservatives and
> capitalists are not picky about the tools they use to make you pay
> what they want you to pay.
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> Jean-Christophe Helary
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