> 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.
Doug ******************** Yeah, Iranian theocrats very much resemble the imagined totalitarians of the past as do our own ruling Christian fundamentalist conservatives with their more or less constant preparations for war. Erase critical thinking. Hate Eurasia! Hate Oceania! I prefer, "workers of the world unite!"
Mike B)
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"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?... Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?... The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness." - George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 5
"People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annhilated: vaporized was the usual word." —pg 20
"In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc." —pg 159
"The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosphies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually, the three philosophies are barely distinguishable " —pg 162
"It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same—everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same—people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world." —pg 181
Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth.
http://www.iww.org/culture/official/preamble.shtml
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