In a theocracy, homo economicus does not rule.
--- On Sat, 7/4/09, ken hanly <northsunm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: ken hanly <northsunm at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] death to habermas-reading clerics
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Saturday, July 4, 2009, 8:25 PM
>
> shag carpet bomb quoteth someone:
>
> for elections do not play the same role in Iran that the
> casting of ballots plays in liberal democracies. In the
> latter, voting actualizes the individual's autonomy in the
> political realm. In the Islamic Republic, voting does not
> —and is not meant to— accomplish any such thing.
>
>
> Wow. Who would have thunk it. In liberal democracies voting
> actualizes the individual's autonomy in the political realm.
> I always thought that under the present system voting
> actually does the opposite while legitimizing the system
> much more effectively than a theocracy.
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> Blog: http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html
> Blog: http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html
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> --- On Fri, 7/3/09, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>
> wrote:
>
> > From: shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>
> > Subject: [lbo-talk] death to habermas-reading clerics
> > To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> > Date: Friday, July 3, 2009, 4:35 PM
> >
> >
> > came across this when looking up some student radicals
> and
> >
>
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