File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_2001/aut-op-sy.0112, message 76


From: "Harald Beyer-Arnesen" <haraldba-AT-online.no>
Subject: Re: AUT: Re: Antiterrorism = development of terror against ourstruggles
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 00:15:39 +0100



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From: Amiri K. Barksdale <abarksdale-AT-mail.thenation.com>
Date: 12. desember 2001 6:12
Subject: Re: AUT: Re: Antiterrorism = development of terror against
ourstruggles


.Amiri, to be frank, I think your reply is absolutely nonsense.
Islamism is a force that works effectively to subdue working
class struggles. That is why it has also enjoyed so much
support from various imperialist powers. The Islamists greatest
enemy is "the left," however you define it, and then of course
women ann every secular force there is. Their terror is foremost
directed against "their own," and not against the US.  My view
on this question is shared by every more or less social
revolutionary person from the region I have ever met.

Since Iran was one of the countries mentioned, Mohammad
Ja'far and Azar Tabari in an article from 1981, draws a direct
analogy to Zionism: (forget the language here still stuck in a
Leninist heritage.)

"To elucidate this point we will draw an analogy. [...] To arrive
at a revolutionary socialist consciousness in Israel, that is for
the Israeli working class to become convinced of the necessity
to overthrow the bourgeoise state, it is necessary first to
break with zionism ... anti-zionist demands, therefore, must
form the central axis of a revolutionary programme in Israel.
[...] To conclude:A revolutionary socialist programme for Iran
today must include as its central plank hostility to the theocratic
Islamic regime and the very idea of an Islamic republic [...]
The break with Islam therefore takes on a transitional character
in Iran today, in a similar sense to a break with zionism
in Israel."

Much of the argument leading up to these conclusion is lost
here, and I do not necessary agree 100 per cent with every
word (and on the party stuff I surely disagree) but it makes
a hundred times much more sense than what you wrote.

This is also a position generally shared by most social revolutionaries
in the region, if for no other reason than it is forced upon them by
realities, as a precondition for survival.

Harald




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