On 8/7/06, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yoshie:
>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.
How does that square with dusting off the accomodationist line of the Tudeh
and Fedayii majority in Iran from 1980?
Because they don't exist in Iran any more as organized social forces
capable of challenging the government. It would be a different thing
if they did.
>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.
What is the obsession with newness?
History doesn't repeat itself, not even as a farce. Generals who seek
to fight the last war are setting themselves up for defeat.
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Yoshie
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