On 8/6/06, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yoshie wrote:
>It seems to me that a true theocracy is the United States, not Iran.
I love this kind of postmodernist irony. It comes from steeping oneself in
Foucault, I gather.
>Over there, the ruling clerics think rationally in a fashion
>recommended by secular economists and advocate scientific research
>(cf. "Iran, 10th country to produce embryonic human stem cell," 3
>September 2006, <http://www.payvand.com/news/03/sep/1010.html>) and
>economic development.
Just what the workers of Iran need, rational economic development.
It seems to me you are obsessed with proving your antipathy to Iran,
an obsession that I do not share and consider tedious.
What
this means is anybody's guess, especially in light of the fact that Iran is
ranked number 99 in the world in terms of Human Development Indicators
according to the UN (Albania is 72nd.).
Have I mentioned that Venezuela ranks 75th, also below Albania?
<http://hdr.undp.org/statistics/data/cty/cty_f_VEN.html> I suppose
Albania has done better than the media let on. :->
Of the most interest is its GDP/HDI
indicator that shows the relationship between wealth produced and living
standards. Iran has a -29, while Cuba is +40.
And? Is there any social force in Iran that can raise GDP/HDI in Iran
to the Cuban level tomorrow?
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Yoshie
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