On 10/7/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
1. Whatever Foucault saw in the Iranian revolution, neither Khomeini nor his supporters nor any other segment of Iranian revolutionaries were interested in a romantic vision of pre-industrial Iran. Far from it, what they pursued was nationalization and modernization, just like many other revolutions. As a matter of fact, the Iranian Revolution was more of an urban revolution than any of the socialist revolutions before it.
but it's quite possible that he absorbed a lot of the romantic tone of the Ayatollah's revolution. "We'll restore the moral order that the Shah's type of industrialization destroyed!"
2. In Europe, post-modernists were generally leftists critical of state socialism, esp. of the Soviet variety, some of whom were sympathetic to autonomist Marxism, anarchism, Maosim, etc....
I'm sure some of them were Trotskyists, who also rejected the Soviet style of socialism (using different names for it). But maybe a lot of them didn't need postmodernism, because they had been criticizing the USSR for decades and had often embraced pro-environmentalist and pro-gay agendas very early. -- Jim Devine / "it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be." -- KM
