Doug Henwood:
> I forwarded these comments to Hamid, who writes:
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> > thanks doug for the interview--my assessment of M's economics is based on what he has done, not on what he might do--if he is elected and he becomes a neoliberal i will write against him (but i just read that he and his wife have been arrested)--i am fully aware of his past regarding the tudeh and the university and have repeatedly pointed out to them as "nasty skeletons in his closet"--as for MLK comparison, this is based on my reading of this event as a civil rights movement, and not as the sort of jerk-off revolutions that your responder seems to enjoy and has prompted him to think me silly--i might indeed be silly in my assessment, but not delusional like he/she is--
From Angry Arab:
A colleague and friend sent me this (she/he does not want to be identified): "Mousavi was (along with a couple of other major "reformists") were hotheaded rightwing Islamists back in the 1980s, and Mousavi in particular was responsible for purging universities of lefties, Jews, and Bahaiis. the other two people most associated with this same move from being university purgers to radical reformists are Abdulkarim Sorush and MohsenKadviar. The former is a philosopher and the latter a cleric, both of whom have very sophisticated arguments (the former based on Gadamer's hermeneutics; the latter based on his extensive training and certification as a faqih) about separating the mosque from the state. All three were involved with the early purges and now face the same fate...the other thing is that although Ahmadinejad has very populist rhetoric he is actually a neoliberal bastard economically, so...."
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2009/06/mousavi-andthe-neoliberal-bastard.html