Re: [A-List] Populism or Neoliberalism?

["Yoshie Furuhashi" <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/24/07, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> > Class politics, from above and below, exists in the Middle East,
> > including Iran.  It is just not politics that aims to establish
> > socialist society.  In that the Middle East does not differ at all
> > from the rest of the world, including much of Latin America.
>
> No, class rhetoric exists in the Middle East. People like Ahmadinejad
> are very good at the rhetoric but are not very good at much else.

Ahmadinejad is not a socialist, but neither are most people in the
Middle East today, nor are others in the rest of the world for that
matter.  Nor were populists who came before him, like Khomeini,
Nasser, Bhutto (Zulfikar Ali, not his daughter), Peron, and so on.
Populism is not socialism.  But when people choose populism rather
than socialism or liberalism, what are communists to do?
--
Yoshie