[lbo-talk] IWW piece on Iranian labor situation

[Miles Jackson]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Apr 20, 2007, at 11:47 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>
>   
>> Yoshie:
>>
>>
>> No, he's just honest.  Ideas and sentiments like his, in favor of
>> colonialism and imperialism, were once quite common* among Western
>>
>> [WS:] Oh absolutely.  I honestly thing that all this talk about  
>> imperialism
>> is either cover up for the authoritarianism, corruption and  
>> ineptitude of
>> Third World governments, or silly contumacy of blasé Western  
>> intellectuals
>> who say it to shock the public.
>>     
>
> So all that stuff about the Brits cutting the legs off Kenyans who  
> weren't working hard enough and the U.S. killing three million  
> Indochinese - all that's just in the spirit of epater la bourgeoisie?
>
> Doug
>
>   
C'mon, Doug, ya gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette.  (--If you 
keep in mind that our way of life is inherently superior, then any 
number of atrocities become rational--no, /necessary/.)

Miles