Yoshie:
I'm not interested in applying old formulas or getting stuck in the past. If you do that, you begin to sound like Confederate nostalgists into Civil War reenactments. The Lost Cause is just that -- lost.
How does that square with dusting off the accomodationist line of the Tudeh and Fedayii majority in Iran from 1980? Is there a statue of limitation on dredging up discredited lines from the past? Do we make exceptions for the politics that jibes with your own? I'd rather go back to the 1930s for something that made sense than to reintroduce bankrupt Stalinist/Islamist formulas from 1980.
Mussolini didn't live in the same country as Hitler -- the Social Democrats and Communists, among others, did. In any case, you seem incapable of looking at the present, always looking to the past.
What is the obsession with newness? I feel like I am at a board meeting of BBDO or Young and Rubicam. -- www.marxmail.org
