[lbo-talk] Iran

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

This is quite the display of smug condescension and orientalism.  I didn't
bother responding to Ward's (who I think has pioneered his own ideology--
Second Camp "anarchism") charge about "regime change" not being slated for
Saudi Arabia, because I assumed the reply would be obvious. There are no
mass protests in Saudi Arabia nor are there not popular workers'
organizations organizing strikes and boycotts.  What's explicit in your
response to Doug is that you think that the protesters in Iran are some sort
of insidious imperialist plot and that you would rather stand with an
autocratic, chauvinist capitalist state than with them.  Which, is fine.  We
are all entitled to our own allegiances, as long as you drop the pretenses
of it being a brave "progressive" stance to protest (like ANSWER did) in
solidarity with concentrated power and state coercion. As far as PSL/ANSWER,
very relevant political questions arise from the fact that one of the main
protest organizations in the country is under the control of a tiny
Stalinist clique that writes paeans to North Korea, Zimbabwe and Iran.

 Namely, where the hell is UFPJ?

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:14 AM, ken hanly <northsunm at yahoo.com> wrote:


> Right. Three cheers for imperialistic humanism. Of course as Ward mentions
> there is no regime change slated for Saudi Arabia. No doubt the Shah was a
> great modernizer.
>  Blog:  http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html
> Blog:  http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Sent: Mon, June 14, 2010 11:57:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Iran
>
>
> On Jun 14, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
>
> > And who
> > are you to decide what price the Iranian people should pay for the
> > abstract goal of checking American hegemony?
>
> Someone not having to live under a theocratic regime that would put him in
> jail for complaining.
>
> Doug
> ___________________________________
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
>
> ___________________________________
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
>