[lbo-talk] Can Politics Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Oct 13 09:47:32 PDT 2007


On Oct 13, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> On 10/13/07, Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote:
>> In any case and to illustrate further, I'd gladly link arms with both
>> Dabashi and Yoshie in a demonstration around the slogan "No
>> US Attack On Iran", and wouldn't be bothered if Dabashi
>> sported a button saying "No to Bush, no to the clerical regime"
>> while Yoshie carried a sign "Solidarity with the Islamic Republic
>> of Iran".
>
> If we allow America to get to _that_ point, which is to say the eve of
> a major planned invasion of Iran, _we will have already failed the
> people of Iran_, for by then it will be _too late_ to stop it. What
> we need to do is to educate Americans to counter _what Washington is
> already doing_ -- economic sanctions, covert actions, "democracy
> assistance," and media propaganda -- so we will never get to the point
> of no return.

How about that Marvin? Try to be generous, and you get a whole lot of underscores in return.

Doug



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