[lbo-talk] FYI

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

Personally, I dismissed it reflexively after being silently disgusted at the
coverage in MRZine during the summer.  Yoshie seems like an amiable
character, but I can say the same about plenty of reactionaries.  The level
of disagreements between the MRZine / PSL "anti-imperialist' position and
the rest of the left seemed to go beyond "arguments among the people" to use
some Mao-rhetoric.

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:


>
> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>  > An excellent statement signed by the who's who of the Iranian
>> > intelligentsia.
>>
>> What a bag of crap.
>>
>
> I'm confused.  This looks like exactly what you'd want MR to support.  It
> looks like a complete turn-around.  It's a statement in support of Moussavi
> and Karoubi and the Green Movement; in support of free elections (spelling
> out all the preconditions, like free assembly and media); freeing all
> political prisoners; and it calls for the dismissal of Ahmedinejad by a
> Parliamentary vote.  For good measure, it refers to the regime as the
> "aggressive ruling autocrats."
>
> And I don't know most of the people who signed it, but I do see one of them
> is your pal Hamid Dabashi.
>
> Did you dismiss it on reflex just assuming it was the old stuff?  Or am I
> missing some deep dark shadow here?
>
> Michael
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