[lbo-talk] FW from the NLG: Bush Plans War on Iran

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 9/3/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 3, 2007, at 3:32 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > Those Iranians whom American and expatriate Iranian liberals and
> > leftists think of as "left-wing" aren't left-wing, nor are those whom
> > they think of as "right-wing" necessarily right-wing.  Terms like left
> > and right are more or less irrelevant to politics in Iran.  The
> > divide, if anything, is between liberal Westernizers and populist
> > anti-imperialists, with Ali Khamenei serving as the arbiter among
> > contending factions.
>
> Aside from being an insult to surviving Iranian leftists - including
> the unionists you've scorned - this overlooks the fact that your
> "dear imam" Khomeini had thousands of their comrades hanged and jailed.

You confuse my recognition of other people's regard for Khomeini with
my own regard for him.

In any case, what you say doesn't contradict the fact that the main
divide in politics in Iran today is, if anything, between liberal
Westernizers and populist anti-imperialists, with Ali Khamenei serving
as the arbiter among contending factions.  It's 2007 today, in the
post-socialist and post-social democratic world.
-- 
Yoshie