On May 1, 2007, at 5:42 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Surprisingly sensible for WSWS (if you can ignore typical WSWS
> formulae at the end). -- Yoshie
You mean this part?
> The Kemalists represent the corrupt state bureaucracy, army and the
> traditional big banks and corporations, while the Islamists represent
> newer bourgeois layers who are no less ruthless, but keen to break up
> the established structures in order make their own enrichment easier.
> There is nothing progressive in either camp. The campaign of
> nationalism and repression by the Kemalists under the battle cry of
> secularism is in the final analysis directed against the democratic
> rights of the working class.
Sounds exactly right to me, but I'm no expert on Turkey.
Doug