[lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran

[wrobert at uci.edu]

I don't think that there has been one response on the part of the 'left'
in the United States (small and fragmentary as it is).  This discussion
should be a strong indicator of that.  robert wood
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> This is what is annoying me about the left's response to what's going
> on in Iran. It's like the people of Iran rebel and would-be supporters
> in the west can only think to trot out--pun intended--the old
> questions and their stock answers: imperialism blah blah, corporate
> media lies blah blah, hypocrisy blah. The only thing that no one is
> talking about is the people of Iran and what they want, where they are
> going, who they are, etc.. Foucault obviously clung too long to the
> last Iranian revolution, but at least he asked the right question:
> "What are the Iranians dreaming about?"
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