On 8/7/06, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yoshie:
>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.
But the Tudeh Party *did not* challenge the government. Didn't you read
that excerpt from Val Moghadam's article that I posted? The Tudeh had the
same relationship to the Islamists that the Chinese CP had to the KMT in
1927. It led to disaster in either case.
Lou, do you realize that the Tudeh Party doesn't exist in Iran now?
What doesn't exist can't do anything, leading to disaster or triumph
or whatever.
>History doesn't repeat itself, not even as a farce. Generals who seek
>to fight the last war are setting themselves up for defeat.
But you are repeating the history of the Tudeh in 1980.
There is no Tudeh in Iran now, so it can't repeat history.
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Yoshie
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