Yoshie:
Which "current"? The only Iranian leftist I know who takes a view _remotely_ similar to mine is Ross Pourzal, who arrived at his politics completely independent of me. One person doesn't constitute a "current." :-> I've yet to hear anything about the prospect of passive revolution in Iran that I've been talking about from Ross, though. :->
Like I said, you might not understand that you have interjected yourself into Iranian exile politics.
Besides, I've published a wide variety of leftist opinions on Iran, from MEK-loving Ron Jacobs to MEK-hating Ross, those who buy the story of Iran's executions of gay men like Michael Steinberg to those who take that story with a giant grain of salt like myself, ISO kids like Pham Binh to postmodernist Oxford scholars like Arshin Adib-Moghaddam. I even published an open letter criticizing Ross and MRZine.
So I guess the people who wrote the open letter were operating on a false perception.
In any event, Iranian leftists in exile, whatever opinion they espouse, are completely irrelevant to the choices that masses in Iran make -- they have no organized following in Iran.
But that can change one day. After all, Khomeini was in exile at one point. So was Lenin. -- www.marxmail.org
