Adios, list. Sabri, please stay in touch -- I would still like to plan
another dinner.
--ravi
On Jul 31, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Louis Proyect wrote:
Apparently forced to deal with the almost unanimous opposition to
Ahmadinejad by Iranian leftist intellectuals in the West as well as
the obstreperous native Iranian commentators on its website, MRZine
has printed a breathtakingly demagogic and stupid article by one
Bizhan Pouya that links its ideological adversaries to:
<...>
Given enough time, I suppose that MRZine will begin accusing the
“left” (their scare quotes, not mine) of digging a tunnel into Iran
from Iraq that CIA agents can sneak through. If the Moscow Trial
could have raised this kind of charge against Leon Trotsky, can the
finger-pointing accusers at MRZine be far behind?
--
Anyone who takes an effort to intellectually challenge the status quo
and established habits is infinitely more venerable than hacks
defending that status quo and established habits, regardless of the
truth function of their propositions. -- W.Sokolowski
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