[lbo-talk] new spirit of capitalism

[Lenin's Tomb]

On 10/9/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> And just what are these hard lessons? If it's that feminism, the
> civil rights movement, and The Gay International have scored only
> partial victories that have left capitalism in place, I'd say, yeah,
> sure, I sorta knew that already and didn't need 50 gigabytes of
> alleged proof that Iran doesn't hang same-sexers and stone adulterous
> women because back in the 16th century every poet had a loverboy.

That's a slightly different argument.  Yoshie is attacking misperceptions of
Iran that are marshalled to provide a vaguely liberal patina to the ongoing
imperialist assault on Iran - the detailed analyses that Yoshie provides,
with extensive evidence, actually provide us with some excellent ammunition
against the liberal apologists.

If
> it means that those movements have in some sense made things worse by
> legitimating capitalism or some such, I'd have to say "horseshit."
>

Well, if you're going to pull rank by being all grown up about it...