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> 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. 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.
>
> [...]
>