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 -----Original Message----- 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 --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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