Louis Proyect wrote:
In the latest attempt by the Campaign for Peace and Democracy (a wholly owned subsidiary of the left-Shachtmanite New Politics magazine) to put a halo over its head, executive director Joanne Landy is gathering signatures for a petition that carves out a "third way" between the USA and Iran. Since the 1940s, this current has always adopted a sort of *moralistic* concept of politics in which one of the primary goals has always been to curry favor with middle-class opinion. It is inspired by the anti-Soviet open letters that people like Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler and Dwight MacDonald used to circulate in the 1950s.
Joanne asked me to sign that but I told her I couldn't, because I said I thought that Iran was perfectly justified in trying to develop nuclear weapons - and, in fact, every country should have at least one nuclear bomb. I'm certainly no fan of the Iranian regime, but I don't see what effect a petition signed by a bunch of metropolitan intellectuals would have on it. Doug
