[lbo-talk] Marjane Satrapi: Revolutionary Spirit

ravi ravi at platosbeard.org
Tue Oct 23 09:37:57 PDT 2007


On 23 Oct, 2007, at 2:07 AM, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> So, I take, Yoshie, that your answer is that instead
> of imposing bourgeois wealth and liberties on the
> unwilling masses in typical imperialist fashion, we
> can let the clerics impose Sharia law, stuff the women
> into chadors, authorize honor killings of raped women
> who disgrace their male relatives, beat clean-shaven
> men, hang the queers and stone the adulterers, and
> build a bomb. That way we can be good
> anti-imperialists.

What do you think? Do you figure that's what she is recommending, based on what she has written? I cannot imagine anybody on LBO preferring the alternative you paint, and that is not what I read from Yoshie's many, many detailed and patient posts on the matter of Iran.

--ravi



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