[Marxism] Shah's son

[brad bauerly <bbauerly@xxxxxxxxx>]

 Louis-"Brad, you really have to read your mail from the list or check the
archives before posting. This talking point of the pro-Ahmadinejad left
was posted already."

Sorry, I was unaware that this was posted.  How is it pro-Ahmadinejad and
not anti-US-imperialist-mingling though?  To repeat I do not fall into the
either-or nonsense and I don't support Ahmadinejad or the theocracy.  Maybe
someday the left will move beyond silly binaries and see how they are used
to divide us. I guy can dream can't he.  Maybe another lengthy obscure Lenin
quote can obfuscate your failure to think beyond the binary proposed by CNN
and the CIA.
-- 
S. Artisean- you threw so many straw men arguments at me that my hay fever
prevented me from even reading your whole post.  Please respond to what I
said, not your idea of what I am saying.  I can both disagree with you and
not stand for what you said I stand for.

I also doubt very much that we should uncritically support *all* protests
against governments, or have I mistaken this list for the Anarchists list.
I can also think that the US played a role in this protest while not falling
into the belief that all of the protesters are US spies.  I too disdain the
use of repressive force by the Iranian state (is it worse now than it has
been in the resent past?) but that does not mean that the protesters are
fighting for a progressive or even revolutionary cause.  Hell I would stand
with neonazis if the state started to beat them into submission.  What is
your point?  Are you implying that I am opposed to popular struggle?  Come
on.  Again, turn off CNN and for Christs sake Louis stop quoting the
Washington Post and New York Times.

You should maybe think a bit harder about my comment on your seemingly
opposite position regarding the dems and Obama and the uncritical left
support for them and your current claim that we should support any popular
protest against their government and for one bourgeois candidate over
another.  Or you could just dismiss it as irrelevant.

Go democracy!
Brad
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