On 8/7/06, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yoshie:
>Who cares what Trotsky's attitude was? You have to think on your own,
>in each concrete case.
If thinking on your own means writing propaganda for a veteran of the
Pasdaran goon squads that unleashed an Islamist reign of terror on the
Iranian working class, I'll stick with repeating old formulas.
I'm not interested in applying old formulas or getting stuck in the
past. If you do that, you begin to sound like Confederate nostalgists
into Civil War reenactments. The Lost Cause is just that -- lost.
>Whatever tendency in the Iranian ruling class Ahmadienjead represents,
>he's preferable to both the liberal formers and the hard-line clerics,
>and that's the opinion of the Iranian masses at this point in history,
>who could have made a different choice but didn't. You can't
>substitute your thinking for their thinking.
Mussolini was preferable to Hitler as well.
Mussolini didn't live in the same country as Hitler -- the Social
Democrats and Communists, among others, did. In any case, you seem
incapable of looking at the present, always looking to the past.
--
Yoshie
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