[lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jun 23 10:50:51 PDT 2009


On Jun 23, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Eric Beck wrote:


> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Michael Smith<mjs at smithbowen.net>
> wrote:
>
>> These are hard questions to answer, and some of them I think are
>> silly --
>> what kind of movement would I *like* to see in Iran? Who cares what I
>> (or any of us) would like or wouldn't?
>
> You are not telling the truth. You do care. When you label a blog post
> relating the news that A. won "My man!" and enthuse because he is
> sticking it to "Tehran hipsters and the professional and mangerial
> classes" you are endorsing a kind of movement in Iran. At least be
> honest about it.

Yikes, I hadn't seen that <http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org/2009/06/my_man.html

>. Michael, that's ridiculous. "Anti-inflation, forsooth!" Easy for you to say, not facing 30% price increases and rising unemployment. Poverty and inequality have both increased under Ahmadinejad, you know.

Doug



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