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

[Doug Henwood]

>
> 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.

Underscores that serve as an introduction to a lecture on sectarianism, no
less!