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

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Jun 14 08:39:59 PDT 2010


On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:


> http://theactivist.org/blog/a-coda-on-solidarity-iran-the-left-and-noble-savages
>
> 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.

Nice essay. I see you mentioned MRZine only in passing, with a link to this dreadful piece of work:

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/aramesh130610.html

It's painful to see MR publishing apologetics for state theocratic repression.

Doug



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