Now we have 2 posts going over the Yoshie/Iran stuff. Please, let it go. On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 06:53:03PM -0500, Louis Proyect wrote: > Carrol wrote: > > From Yoshie's posts on Iran I would gather (re stacking contradictions > >in the right order) that the principal contradiction in Iran today is > >that between neo-liberalism and illiberal nationalism. > > One of the most unfortunate aspects of this debate that has raged > across the 3 mailing lists is the utter lack of initiative taken by > participants. Although I have a full-time job, responsibilities for > Marxmail and writing obligations for Swans and my own blog, I tried > to get up to speed by reading perhaps a dozen or so articles, an > entire manuscript of an excellent book that is due to be published by > Zed in December and sections of other books. As it became clear to me > that nobody else had any interest in getting beneath the surface > except Yoshie, who obviously was responding to some deep obsessive > need equivalent to hand-washing, I began to wind down my involvement. > > This mailing list is geared to academics but I have seen nothing but > superficial opinionizing like Carrol's. It really makes me wonder why > pen-l is such a high-falutin' place with academics threatening to > unsub every week or two because they can't stand unnecessary static. > I have the feeling that just about every economist on the list has > zero interest outside of their narrow bailiwick unlike the late > Edward Said whose range was oceanic. > > I myself have no interest in answering Carrol because there is > nothing of substance in his post. I understand that he has spent a > lifetime with his nose in books and might not have any appetite for > going to the library, but let's no kid ourselves that he is really > speaking about Iran. He might as well be writing about Khazakstan > with a President named Borat.
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