[lbo-talk] Regime Change and Paranoid Reaction

Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org
Wed May 23 13:22:03 PDT 2007


Yoshie Furuhashi

The anarchists and socialists who opposed WW1, I expect, wouldn't support a capitalist-imperialist state's "democracy assistance" for the purpose of regime change today, nor would they be happy to have their revolutionary internationalism equated with liberal imperialism.

^^^^ CB: Nor would they include Iran as an imperialist country of today at all, and no where near the Level One imperialism of the U.S. Iran has no colonies, no international banking bloodsuckers, like the imperialist nations of the WWI era. Iran is still a neo-colony of imperialism. To compare Iran today to imperialist nations of the WWI era is completely off.

^^^^^


> That "left in form, right in essence" dogma is not this, still living,
socialist's cuppa :
> it's an old formulae designed to keep the workers cheering for one ruling
class
> against another.

Letting Washington pursue its regime change campaigns with impunity is to keep the workers, especially the American workers, cheering for one ruling class, especially the most ideological wing of the American power elite, against others. Keeping the American workers cheering for them in no way helps to get rid of the capitalist state in either the USA or Iran or anywhere. -- Yoshie



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