Sure. But it is certainly not homo economicus. Stoning adulterers is not done out of some individualist capitalist impulse.
--- On Sat, 7/4/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] death to habermas-reading clerics
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Saturday, July 4, 2009, 9:51 PM
>
> On Jul 4, 2009, at 9:44 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
>
> > In a theocracy, homo economicus does not rule.
>
> Iran is not a pure theocracy. It's an odd hybrid of
> democracy and theocracy. So Homo economicus is hardly
> silent.
>
> And the theocrats have support of the merchant bourgeoisie,
> too. It's not all a bunch of bearded lunatics channeling
> God.
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