[lbo-talk] black books

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Sep 9 06:31:26 PDT 2007


On Sep 8, 2007, at 9:05 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> 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."_

In other words, you can't offer up a single name. Posts that repeat this smear will go straight to the trash.

Doug



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