Re: [Marxism] Iranian opposition leader: Vote should be annulled

[Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 20, 2009, at 1:57 PM, Mehmet Cagatay wrote:
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090620/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ 
> ml_iran_election_326
> TEHRAN, Iran – Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi is repeating  
> his demand that Iran's presidential vote must be annulled.
> .
> The worst thing that could happen to the revolutionary movement in  
> Iran is annulment of the elections. This news item reminded me a  
> short anecdote in Alain Badiou's latest book (The Meaning of  
> Sarkozy) about how the movement of '68 was crushed with the aid of  
> elections


Lenin said all that was needed about this sort of nonsense some 90  
years ago in a little book called "Left Wing Communism--An Infantile  
Disorder"--though today the word "Senile" would fit better than  
"Infantile."



Shane Mage

> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos

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