At least, there was an organized alternative to the Communist Party in
places like Spain back then.
We can't do any politics based on nostalgia, though. Can't you look
at the real world today and evaluate organized social forces that
exist in it?
--
Yoshie
Of course. I don't feel any particular need, however, to take sides in the
internal politics of Somalia, for example. There has been a struggle
between Islamists and warlords. I supported the warlords against the US
occupiers in 1993 and would support the Islamists against a new
intervention (and that would include Ethiopia as well.) But I don't go
around making ridiculous statements pumping up the reputation of whoever is
in power in Somalia. Trotsky's attitude toward Ethiopia's resistance to
Italian fascism is one that I would identify with.
In terms of organized social forces in Iran today, the only ones are those
that are hostile to the working class as an independent force. Ahmadinejad
and the liberal reformers or hardline clerics he has clashed with all
represent tendencies within the Iranian ruling class. I think that you are
probably confused over Ahmadinejad because you don't understand
Bonapartism. If you can steal yourself away from Foucault, you might want
to read Karl Marx's 18th Brumaire.
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