>I also know a thing or two about Tariq Ali. Ali doesn't go as far as
>Lenin's party (i.e., the party of which Richard is a member) and its
>Egyptian comrades, but he is committed to democracy enough to say
>people will learn through their own experience, so "let the people
>decide," even if the result is Islamists in power.* He wouldn't
>advocate the kind of alliance that some Egyptian socialists are
>practicing, but he won't stand in its way, if such an alliance can win
>people's support.
I appreciate that you provide information about what's going on. But what does letting the people in Egypt decide have to do with you convincing me that I should be down with the Muslim Brotherhood ?