Re: What the Empire Learned from the Lesson of Iran

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Sometimes, yes, other times, no.  Since when have revolutionaries
> eschewed violence to initiate it or maintain revolution, on the
> defensive or offensive?
>
> --
> Yoshie

I have no idea what this airy speculation has to do with the question at
hand. The revolutionary guards in Iran function like Pinkertons. They use
violence to suppress economic strikes. You sully the good name of Monthly
Review by trying to put a positive spin on this business, as if the
revolutionary guards were involved with the same project as the POUM
militias in Spain. When there is political violence, we have to identify
the class character of those on either side of the barricades. I side with
the bus drivers. Yoshie sides with the hooligans who beat them up.