[lbo-talk] Countering the Politics of Fear (was Tariq Ali at UCLA today)

Yoshie Furuhashi critical.montages at gmail.com
Sat Oct 28 20:32:16 PDT 2006


On 10/28/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 28, 2006, at 10:54 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
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> > Western leftists
>
> Are these Western leftists?

Yes. They live in the West and are unlikely to go back to Iran and live there permanently.

On 10/28/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 28, 2006, at 9:20 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
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> > But you fit into the category well and express its tendency toward the
> > politics of fear, depending on topics.
>
> Does the Iranian-American socialist-feminist Val Moghadam count as a
> western leftist?

She's lived in the West for a long time as well, longer than I have been, for all I know. Nothing in the article below is over the top, though, nor anything else by her I have read. If her work seems very persuasive to you, perhaps you might tone down your rhetoric to her level.


> This all seems very persuasive to me.
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> <http://iranreview.com/Iran%20Analysis/
> on_the_recent_elections_in_iran_.htm>
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> On the Recent Elections in Iran
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> Val Moghadam

-- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>



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