Re: Malecki, more time to reading, not replying please!

[Adam Rose <adam@xxxxxxxx>]

Doug writes, quite correctly :
>
> At 9:12 AM 7/2/96, Robert Malecki wrote:
>
> >The Americans might have lost their shah. However replacing it with a
> >anti-American pro imperialist Mullah goverment is hardly a great loss. In
> >fact for elementry bougeois rights for women its was certainly a great
> >loss..The shah had a better position on women then the Mullahs..
>
> "Hardly a great loss" to American imperialism? Perhaps the distance to your
> hog commune in Sweden is too great for the news to travel, but the U.S.
> ruling class has been obsessed with Iran for 17 years now. The hate it,
> Malecki. Perhaps you forget when Saddam Hussein was America's great friend
> for making war on Iran.
>

Let me explain.

The world is divided into two : the Imperialist bloc, and the anti Imperialist
bloc. The anti Imperialist bloc is characterised by state ownership and
Stalinist leadership. Therefore, if there is a nationalist revolution which
does not result in the country in question joining the anti Imperialist ( ==
Stalinist ) bloc, this is not a serious blow against US Imperialism.

This may come as a surprise to Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and the people
of Iran, but Malecki has dialectical logic on his side.

In addition, since Trotsky said that there can be no way to throw off the
Imperialist yolk without socialist revolution, and there has been no socialist
revolution in Iran, not only was Iran "Hardly a great loss" , there was in
fact no revolution.

Adam.

PS. Hint : these arguments are of the form "deduction from incorrect
hypothesis". In general, the start from the false hypothesis H, and move
via a sequence of correct deductions to a factually contradicted deduction.
If all the intermediate steps are correct, and the final deduction is false,
then the only remaining solution is that the STARING POINT IS WRONG.

eg :

Assume H
        H->A
        A->B
        B->C

        therefore deduce

        C.

Reality : C is false.
Therefore, H is false.

Adam Rose
SWP
Manchester
UK


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