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

[Shane Mage]

Michael Smith wrote:
>... it's hard to think of a social formation -- apart
>from the American Left, of course -- who are more thoroughly
>beached, or benched, than the liberal emigre Iranian opposition...

Does Michael Smith speak Persian? Has he ever been to Iran?  Does
he even know any Iranians?  Why does anyone who defends
the rights and liberties of the people qualify as "liberal?"  And were Trotsky,
Sedov, and Viktor Serge "emigres?"

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not
consent to be called 
Zeus."                                                         

Herakleitos of Ephesos