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Re: What the Empire Learned from the Lesson of Iran

Yoshie: 
Pitched battles between supporters and opponents of the Bolivarian
Revolution have been common, the battles that have sometimes included
gun shots and deaths:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2625997.stm>.


I think most PEN-L'ers can figure out that the violence was initiated by
the rightwing in Venezuela and then people defended themselves. I am not
sure what this has to do with Iran. The revolutionary guards burst into a
trade union organizing meeting and started beating people up. Yoshie's
citation reminds me of Malcolm X's point about trying to turn the victim
into a criminal and vice versa.

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