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