Perhaps the best time to critique those repressive governments though is not while US and Israeli missiles are raining down on their schools and hospitals. In my observation, supporters of Stalin's version of socialism have tended to align with Iran in a pretty uncompromising way, often extolling the virtues of the Iranian government and its progress in areas like education, including for women. Iran's is basically a social democratic economy funding social goods out of oil revenue as far as I can tell. Trotsky advocates might want to recall his view of this sort of dilemma - an authoritarian government under attack from a Western "liberal democracy":
"I will take the most simple and obvious example. In Brazil there now reigns a semifascist regime that every revolutionary can only view with hatred. Let us assume, however, that on the morrow England enters into a military conflict with Brazil. I ask you on whose side of the conflict will the working class be? I will answer for myself personally—in this case I will be on the side of “fascist” Brazil against “democratic” Great Britain. Why? Because in the conflict between them it will not be a question of democracy or fascism. If England should be victorious, she will put another fascist in Rio de Janeiro and will place double chains on Brazil. If Brazil on the contrary should be victorious, it will give a mighty impulse to national and democratic consciousness of the country and will lead to the overthrow of the Vargas dictatorship. The defeat of England will at the same time deliver a blow to British imperialism and will give an impulse to the revolutionary movement of the British proletariat." Another fascist in Tehran and double chains on Iran seems a highly likely outcome of a US / Israeli victory in Iran. Comradely, John -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41196): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41196 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/118369160/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
