I'm eventually going to get to responding to Yoshie's reading of Gramsci, but I'm substantially skeptical to the parallel between Iran and Venezuela. It seems to operate on a set of shallow linkages between Ahmedijad and Chavez in order to gloss over the more substantial element of the Boliverian movement, the mass movement. I'm am willing to be disabused of this notion, but I don't see anything parallel to this occurring within the Islamic Republic.
Robert Wood
>
> Didn't you say you had said your last on Iran? Hmm? ;-)
>
> I tried scanning through Dabashi, but it got a bit tedious -- tastes
> differ, I guess. Anyway, my comment is mostly to M. Smith's points,
> especially regarding the essential difference between the camps that
> have emerged on Iran (Ahmedinijad and all) and what it is about.
> While M. Smith is talking about Dabashi (who I have heard on your
> show and find agreeable), I was not (I should have made that clear!
> My bad!) -- the original version of my response in fact made a
> reference to an old Stanley Fish article on the Mohammed cartoon
> business (which I posted here or on PEN-L a year or so ago), but I
> didn't have time to finish the thought, so I took it out.
>
> Some more thoughts, at random: M. Smith calls it the choice between
> Ahmedinijad and Bollinger. In an earlier post, I cast it in different
> terms, as a choice (for the "third world") between the Iran/Venezuela
> model and the (Tom Friedman) India model.
>
> Response to Rakesh when I return... I hope! (I still owe responses to
> Dwayne, Jerry, Carrol... some dating back to last year and earlier!
> But I still love all of you!)
>
> --ravi
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