On 8/7/06, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
Show me the "current" that you claim to exist. :-> Iranian leftists,
even if you put ALL of them (who don't agree with one another)
together, don't even fill a high school auditorium. They have no
power, here or in Iran.
>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 my opinion, yes, but in their opinion, no. It's a matter of
political judgment. There are subjects on which thinking persons can
disagree, without considering those who disagree with one as THE
ENEMY. I just prefer mine to theirs, as I always prefer my own
opinion to others' on any subject. If you prefer theirs to mine,
that's your pleasure.
>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.
I'm on the lookout for that. :-> But the odds are against them, more
against them than the odds of Michael Perelman becoming the Chairman
of the Federal Reserve.
--
Yoshie
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