[lbo-talk] new blog post: A Coda on Solidarity: Iran, the Left and Noble Savages | The Activist

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

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On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Max Sawicky <sawicky at verizon.net> wrote:
> You might be pleased to know the USG filters out your site as
> "inappropriate."  They never say exactly why.
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> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com
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>> http://theactivist.org/blog/a-coda-on-solidarity-iran-the-left-and-noble-savages
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>> It doesn’t take a tremendous appreciation of the dialectic to grasp
>> this contradiction: some of the groups with the most stridently
>> “revolutionary” and “anti-imperialist” politics are, in practice,
>> reactionary and orientalist.  It was today, just one year ago, when
>> protests broke out in Iran over the election fraud that saw Mahmoud
>> Ahmadinejad return to power.  The street demonstrators were
>> ideologically diverse, but their goal was clear.  For the first time
>> since 1979, the whole putrefied edifice of the Islamic Republic was
>> called into question.
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>> [...]
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