[lbo-talk] Iran's Youth Movements

[Lenin's Tomb]

On 6/25/07, Kameraden Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> I really don't understand why we have to confuse opposition to an
> attack on Iran, which would be barbaric and disastrous, with a
> defense of the regime, which deserves none. Can't we think two
> thoughts at once? Wouldn't Cde Trotsky have liked it that way?
>
> Doug
>

Neither do I.  I don't understand the necessity for any confusion, all
confusion being by definition surplus to requirements.  However, I take your
point, and apologise if I led anyone to think that we should 'defend' the
regime in Iran.  For the record, I fully support the Iranian workers and
students when they resist the state, as well as the Iranian capitalist elite
of which it is the executive arm.

But why should I have to stipulate that every time I point out that we
shouldn't necessarily believe even 50% of what's in the New York Times on
such a sensitive topic as Iran?  Am I being submitted to a Yoshie-Test,
here?  It's enough to make someone explode (not literally, of course, before
anyone gets confused about that too).