[lbo-talk] yoshie?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Jul 5 17:19:04 PDT 2009


On Jul 5, 2009, at 5:57 AM, Barry Brooks wrote:


> >I don't know if she is right or not...
> There's nothing wrong with this comment.
>
> http://montages.blogspot.com/
>
> Saturday, June 27, 2009
> Rafsanjani, Mousavi Vow Support to End Unrest
> See how they have sold out sincere reformers of Iran: "Rafsanjani,
> Mousavi Vow Support to End Unrest" (Press TV, 25 June 2009)?
>
> The only freedom that men like Rafsanjani and Mousavi care about is
> investor freedom, so Iranian reformers had no business lining up
> behind them against the will of the poorer two thirds of Iran, but
> all too many did. That is anti-democratic. This kind of incoherent
> anti-democratic coalition happens in every country where economic
> neoliberals succeed in conning
> politico-social-cultural liberals and occasionally some foolish
> leftists into backing them, from Nepal to Venezuela, Thailand to
> Yugoslavia, Moldova to the OPTs.

When "foolish leftists" should be instead backing theocrats and fraudulent populists!



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