[lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran

[Matthias Wasser]

>From what I can tell Mousavi ran on promises of liberal restrucuring and
austerity. Maybe these would solve Iran's problems and maybe they wouldn't,
but it doesn't seem irrational for a poor voter to fear them. Accepting that
poor Iranians know more about poor Iranians' economic situation than we do,
I don't see any reason to assume that the majority who see Ahmedinejad as
more attractive than Mousavi are dupes.
And poor whites generally don't vote for Republicans unless there are a lot
of non-whites in their state, in which case they do have very plausible
economic reasons for voting for the party they judge to be more committed to
white supremacy.

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


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> I doubt the Persian Prince won the election, at least by that much, but
> you're assuming that the economy, and not say religion, is the most concern
> for the Iranian poor in general and the A-Man's electorate in particular.
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> --- On Tue, 6/16/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> > I don't deny that the rural poor may have good reasons for
> > supporting Ahmadinejad, but he hasn't really delivered a
> > better economy - as Dabashi pointed out, the country is
> > suffering from what we once called stagflation. Not that the
> > "liberals" would deliver the goods either. But the 62% vote
> > is just implausible. And it looks like they may have
> > overplayed their hand. If you're going to steal an election,
> > it makes more sense to do so with 51% than 62%.
> >
> > Doug
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