you guys don't seem to be communicating with each other at all.
On 8/7/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/7/06, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yoshie: > >Because they don't exist in Iran any more as organized social forces > >capable of challenging the government. It would be a different thing > >if they did. > > But the Tudeh Party *did not* challenge the government. Didn't you read > that excerpt from Val Moghadam's article that I posted? The Tudeh had the > same relationship to the Islamists that the Chinese CP had to the KMT in > 1927. It led to disaster in either case. Lou, do you realize that the Tudeh Party doesn't exist in Iran now? What doesn't exist can't do anything, leading to disaster or triumph or whatever. > >History doesn't repeat itself, not even as a farce. Generals who seek > >to fight the last war are setting themselves up for defeat. > > But you are repeating the history of the Tudeh in 1980. There is no Tudeh in Iran now, so it can't repeat history. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
-- Jim Devine / "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in business schools, it's the exact opposite." --- Paul Dirac [edited]
