[lbo-talk] Chavez is no prince and neither is Ahmadinejad (was: Chavez, bush, the devil and jon stewart)

[Michael Hoover]

On 9/30/06, ylle521 at highstream.net <ylle521 at highstream.net> wrote:
> And another thing, while I got a kick out of his UN speech, IMO Hugo
> Chavez is no prince, see: embrace of Ahmadinejad.
>
>  > JUAN COLE: And remember, the Iranian president is powerless, virtually. The
> commander-in-chief of the armed forces is Khamenei, the Supreme
> Juridprudent. Ahmadinejad can consult on the appointment of cabinet
> ministers and ambassadors, but there are very few orders that he
> could give of any significance in the Iranian system. He's kind of
> like our Secretary of the Interior or something. So what he thinks
> about things isn't that important.
> Maria
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so maybe chavez should be reading machiavelli and gramsci rather than chomsky...

as for ahmadinejad, cole's comment suggests that it doesn't matter who
he reads 'cause he ain't ever gonna be a prince in the machiavellian
and gramscian sense)...   mh