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

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 9/5/07, Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> 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.
>
> 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!"

It takes no brain to repeat slogans.  Critical thinking begins only
when we ask questions such as "How?"  A while ago, Doug mentioned that
"In July 2007, there was _no measurable strike activity at all_. So
far  for 2007, there have been a few strikes, but _the average lost
work time is 0.00% of the total_" (emphasis added, at
<http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20070827/016478.html>).

 Before reaching out to workers of the rest of the world, American
workers have to first get their own class struggle off ground.
-- 
Yoshie