[lbo-talk] Iran protest news sources

Wojtek Sokolowski swsokolowski at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 20 14:49:18 PDT 2009


--- On Sat, 6/20/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Iran protest news sources
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Saturday, June 20, 2009, 4:31 PM
>
> On Jun 20, 2009, at 3:39 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> > R*egardless of what happens in Iran, they are going to
> end up with a
> > tyranny. The only question is whether it will be a
> reasonably patriotic
> > tyranny or a tyranny subordinate to western
> interests.
>
> No doubt you prefer the "patriotic" tyranny to the
> "subordinate" one, but why?

[WS:] "Patriotic" is a bit misleading here. A better term would be "theocratic," no? The president is for the most part a figurehead, and the actual power is wielded by a bunch of religious shysters.

Wojtek



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