Ordinarily, I would qualify this by saying that Yoshie crossposted an article written by some Iranian and that this reflects her own POV rather than that of Monthly Review. But as long as Mage and Foster-Bellamy keep her on staff, I can only assume that they endorse her bullshit.
The article makes a number of useful points about the neoliberal direction taken by the "moderate" government but includes this most revealing observation: "Fariborz Raisdana, a prominent Iranian Marxist economist who criticized government-subsidy cuts1 by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's administration and spent one year behind bars, specifies that 90 percent of imports, 25 percent of exports, and 48 percent of investments are by the private sector." So where in fuck's name has the most prestigious Marxist journal in the USA been on Iran when the only thing coming out in its name has been the shameless drivel promoting Ahmadinejad by Yoshie both on MRZine and on Marxmail, LBO-Talk, and PEN-L--taken together, the highest profile radical listservs on the Internet? Where was MR when Ahmadinejad was CUTTING SUBSIDIES TO WORKERS? ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL? Monthly Review only decides to publish an article by an Iranian Marxist once it becomes obvious that the government intends to do the safety net what Obama has been doing here. Was Yoshie too distracted to ferret out other Marxist analyses of Iran for the past 10 years? What is she being paid for? http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2013/asefi311013.html _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
