On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com>wrote:
> 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.
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> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> > An excellent statement signed by the who's who of the Iranian
>>> > intelligentsia.
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>>> What a bag of crap.
>>>
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>> 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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