[lbo-talk] black books

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 9/8/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Imam Yoshie writes:
>
> > Most leftists are too busy writing a Black Book of Khomeinism to
> > bother fighting against the general US propaganda campaign against
> > Iran exemplified by this cartoon...
>
> I'm trying to decide whether this is a smear or a lie. Name a leftist
> who spends even a tenth as much time compiling such a black book as
> you do writing and editing apologetics for the Iranian state. Name
> one who doesn't agitate against a war on Iran.

What leftists should be agitating against is the ongoing US campaign
for _regime change_ in Iran, _not_ a US war on Iran (which is not
going to happen any time soon).  Stop using opposition to a phantom
war as an alibi and start opposing what Washington is already doing:
_economic sanctions, covert action, and "democracy assistance."_


> And why are you so
> obsessed with what "leftists" do with regard to Iran, since you never
> tire of pointing out how inconsequentially few of us there are in the
> U.S.?

You don't expect rightists and centrists to agitate against regime
change, do you?
-- 
Yoshie