The Curse of the Iranian "Left"

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The Curse of the Iranian "Left"
by Anonymous Observer
08-Mar-2011
 

We all know them.  We have all seen them.  And we have all been their victims.  They are the omnipresent Iranian “left.”  There are a few varieties of them.  But generally speaking, they are quinquaginarian and sexagenarian socialists and / or Islamo-socialists who reside in the West and either teach at a university or are perennial “authors” or pundits who are “experts” on Iran issues.  These creatures have several things in common:

1) They are all fossils.  They are relics of a bygone era where Karl Marx actually mattered and when Ali Shariati’s true hideous face was not yet revealed to the Iranian people.

2) They are all frustrated West haters.  They lost the war of ideas and they blame the “West” for it.  So, they try to find new things to advocate hatred of the West with since their promises of a classless utopian socialist society turned out to be nothing but Soviet style military dictatorships and Pol Pot’s killing fields.  Plus, people of the world really don’t like to be forced into bread lines and be allowed to eat only one egg per day.  

3) They all think that the Islamic Republic is the world’s salvation against the evil “West.”  Really, they do!  With the USSR gone, the only country that is belligerent enough to talk crap about half of the world day in and day out is the IR.  Just think of the IR as the USSR without the military might to back up its big mouth, and you’ll get the picture.  So, what do they do?  Day in and day out, they try to do all kinds of acrobatics to convince us that the IR should remain in power, but just tweak itself a little bit.  You know, fewer executions here, fewer stonings there, and voila!  You have the perfect government on the planet.

4) The are extremely “por-roo.”  It’s not enough that they brought us the 1979 devolution, they still have the audacity to tell us what we should do and what the government of Iran should or should not be.  As if their “reedan” to our country wasn’t enough 32 years ago.  And as if we’re dumb enough to fall for their bullshit again.

5) They hate Iran, and especially Iran’s ancient history.  To them, that’s anathema to their ideology.  This is partially due to their socialist beliefs and partially due to their Shariati style worship of Ali and other band of Arab nomads of 1400 years ago.

6)  They paralyze the evolution of a solid and effective movement against the IR by their constant micro-analysis and twisting of every god damn thing that comes out of the mouths of every single person in Iran.  Even when the people are chanting “marg bar jomhoori eslami,” they still come out and claim that people don’t want to change the regime.  It’s as if their mission in life to maintain the status quo in Iran and to paralyze every bit of progress toward removing this regime.  They have it down to a science: “paralysis by analysis.”

So, what should we do?  Ignoring them is just not enough.  Hanging them from light poles for creating the Islamic Republic—although a great idea—would probably land us in jail.  Plus, we can wait to do that for when they return to Iran after the IR is gone to tell us how the new government should be. 

For now, I suggest we don’t give them the forums and the opportunity to bullshit the world.  It is said that when Lyndon Johnson took office after Kennedy’s assassination, noticed how things would get bogged down in never ending analysis by JFK’s Ivey League educated staff.  So, he issued a decree saying “get all of these Harvards out of here.”  So, he got rid of all those pencil heads and actually got things done, such as the landmark Civil Rights Act that Kennedy could have never gotten through a Dixicrat dominated Congress (as he had tried and failed before).

So, for us, let’s get all of these disastrous Shariati and Karl Marx wannabe fossils out of here.  It’s over for you folks.  You’re a bunch of irrelevant dinosaurs.  Enough with the analysis.  The Islamic Republic is a murderous, anti-Iranian criminal gang that needs to be kicked out of our country.  That’s all.  And hopefully, when the IR is gone, we will get in its place an ultra-nationalist government which will use you as cement and mortar with which it will repair Pasargaad and the rest of Takht-e-Jamshid.   Can’t wait!       

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Soosan Khanoom

AO JAN

by Soosan Khanoom on Wed Mar 09, 2011 06:20 AM PST

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Anonymous Observer

Soosan Khanoom

by Anonymous Observer on Wed Mar 09, 2011 06:10 AM PST

As to your first comment, I actually agree, and that's part of the reason that I despise this bunch. They're hypocrites at best.  They live in the West, take advantage of it and yet, they bad mouth it and want its destruction.  And despite what they tell people in Iran about "toughing it out" and "waiting" for "reforms" to somehow materialize, they will not last even a single day in Iran.

As to your second comment, youthful indiscretion is one thing.  being sixty years old and beating the drum of what you know is a failed ideology is totally another!  Also, I much rather see someone read zan-e-rooz than Shariati's nonsense.  The former is at least harmless.  Having "savd" just for the sake of having "savad" is not particularly admirable.  Knowledge is knowing that tomato is a fruit.  Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit basket.  These folks are pretty thin on the wisdom side of things, even if they're well read.   

I will try to respond to comments by others later.   


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Soosan Khanoom

Having said that

by Soosan Khanoom on Wed Mar 09, 2011 06:04 AM PST

I am not amused at all with you making fun of their passionate youth ......... at least both Marx and Shariati followers had some Savad to read books ... the rest back then were pretty much Beesavad  !  or were busy reading Zan eh Rooz !!


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Soosan Khanoom

For your information the

by Soosan Khanoom on Wed Mar 09, 2011 05:52 AM PST

For your information the last communist standing is Fidel Castro  .........  the rest are pretty much fallen ......... I mean fallen in love with the U.S of A  .... all the leftist Iranian ones are in Pebble Beach kind of places enjoying their Capitalism dream  !


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Mash Ghasem

yaar jan, such statements just demonstrate your utter

by Mash Ghasem on Wed Mar 09, 2011 03:14 AM PST

ingnorance of Jazani and Fadayie's thought and practice. They actually had a critique of Tudeh party and Soviet Union, they had no illusions on either, perhaps their critique wasn't sufficeint, but they were a lot more aware of the limitaions, mistakes and outright betrayals: as seen in 1953 by Jazani's generation.

And when you mention the Left in Iran why don't you mention Niroy Sevom, the Third Force, this was a Left very critical of Soviet Union and independent of it.


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yaar

Left insist on what is proven wrong

by yaar on Wed Mar 09, 2011 02:56 AM PST

AO thank you, very well said.
Now a short story: Bijan Jazani's father was a first Lieutenant in Iranian gendarmerie but joined "Fergeh-ye Demokrat" and when that collapsed, he ran to utopia and Stalin. Almost 20 years later (1345) he repented and came back to Iran and got a teaching job. Bijan never bothered to ask his father why leaving utopia. Just tried his best to make Iran like the utopia that his father ran from.


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ComraidsConcubine

Mash Ghasem ;)

by ComraidsConcubine on Wed Mar 09, 2011 03:09 AM PST

ROFLM!

Spare a thought for -- Comrade: he has to bear the enlarged largesse of this bare burden of  automotive  gold-in-weight "components" too! 

 

P.S. Can somebody please tell some people that there are as many left types as some modest women have shoes? 


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Anahid Hojjati

Dear AO, first you choose people like Nilofar Parsi

by Anahid Hojjati on Wed Mar 09, 2011 02:54 AM PST

as leftist and then you write nagatively about leftists. She has nothing to do with leftists in Iran. You should listen to Roozbeh.


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Mash Ghasem

CC jan, is "Egyptian silken sock" your only fetish?

by Mash Ghasem on Wed Mar 09, 2011 02:48 AM PST

Or it extends to General Commodity Fetishism? Und warum?

You could lose some weight, you know. We'll put in a good word to Comriad not to drop you for going thin, no Siberia either.


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ComraidsConcubine

upon St Lucifer's soul!

by ComraidsConcubine on Wed Mar 09, 2011 02:21 AM PST

There I was sitting tightly on my poodle's cute lap, when this fake comrade had to, due to sanctions, rush out to collect his IRI agency payment via Weberian Western Union, to keep me in my cocked up cockney misdemeanour of a lifestyle of fetishistic Egyptian silken sock commodities and suddenly I felt free and enlightened: I shall take my cue from Magdalena, denounce Karl and Ali and watch my GDP (Girth Deficit Palpitations). Where is  Faust when I need him?

 

No, more seriously now AO, the most plausible explanation I've heard is that it was those nasty liberals, who couldn't be herded, leaving an organizing hole for right-wing religious fascists to take over.  

P.S. To Ayatollah Admin. Please, try to read my post carefully before deletion and you might trip over a multitude of political references and worst of all, you might learn something.


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Mash Ghasem

Sorry to burst your bubble AO jan, but Iranian Marxists have

by Mash Ghasem on Wed Mar 09, 2011 01:20 AM PST

actually been at the forefront of struggle against IR since day one. As Rozbeh mentions Marx and Shariati really don't have anything in common, Marx was actually a somewhat Eurocentric Renaissance man. If you had paid any attention to Eranian estudents' estruggles in the past 5 years , especially 16 Azar you might not be so dismissive of the Left in Iran. 

Has the 2008 "Financial Crisis" had any impact on your life? That's what Marx was talking ebout. 


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yolanda

........

by yolanda on Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:28 PM PST

I love the big fancy words quinquagenarian and sexagenarian...........Reza Aslan is a tricenarian, only 38 years old!

I believe he is quite religious! He endorses Mecca locator in his website!

In 2009, he seemed to be anti-IRI.......later I don't know what switched him!


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Anonymous Observer

Roozbeh Jaan

by Anonymous Observer on Tue Mar 08, 2011 09:06 PM PST

Thanks for your commment.  I don't think that you fall into the category.  I was talking about the AN-tellectual class of the Iranian "left."  Judging by your material here, I don't think you fall in that category.  If you were, you would be a Niloufar Parsi fan, which I know you're not.

And in terms of Shariati and Marx, it's rather simple.  Just take atheism away from Marx, and you get Shariati. 


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Anonymous Observer

Few Responses

by Anonymous Observer on Tue Mar 08, 2011 09:04 PM PST

Ebi & AI: Thank you for your kind words.

Divaneh:  Thanks for your comment.  The reason for that is because TODAY is because of a lack of leadership alternatives.  Pre-IR, I don't know what the problem was...seriously, I don't know.

Vildemose: Thanks for your comment.  The reason for what you're saying is because these people have zero concern for the lives of the actual people who live in those hell holes.  To them, the whole world is a laboratory were they can do crazy social experiments, such as Iran.  Have you ever read "Niloufar Parsi's" diatribes?  have you ever heard ANY concern for the lives on Iranians?  All she cares about is for the "West" to be humiliated.  Consequences be damned!!

 


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Roozbeh_Gilani

I had my annual medical check up last week

by Roozbeh_Gilani on Tue Mar 08, 2011 08:33 PM PST

And was glad to be told that although my 40'th B'day is clearly on the horizon, I have still not turned into a Fossil!

One day, one of you learned friends would explain to me and the other "lefties", if any,  on this site, what the heck, ali shariati the "muslim untellectual" had to do with Marx who thought of religion as the opium of the masses....

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."


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ebi amirhosseini

A O Jaan

by ebi amirhosseini on Tue Mar 08, 2011 07:32 PM PST

Great read.

Sepaas

Ebi aka Haaji


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divaneh

Well said AO

by divaneh on Tue Mar 08, 2011 06:14 PM PST

The problem starts when the utopians like the know nothing Shariati or one-book comrades want to lead the rest of the society to their utopia. The environment which gives these deluded individuals their mass followers is equally to blame.


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vildemose

Great post. What does

by vildemose on Tue Mar 08, 2011 06:36 PM PST

Great post. What does really boggle the mind is that they exploit the West while idolizing  some utopian hellhole and are also complicit in keeping the said hellhole as a hellhole by complainin­g bitterly about the Western country they live in.

It does not make sense to me whatsoever.


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Artificial Intelligence

Excellent Observastion AO

by Artificial Intelligence on Tue Mar 08, 2011 05:22 PM PST

Could not have said it better. Thanks!


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Anonymous Observer

As promised Samsam brother

by Anonymous Observer on Tue Mar 08, 2011 05:06 PM PST

I wrote this one at your request.  

I agree about where these clowns came from and the effect of their backgrounds on their ideology.  Whatever the cause was though, they became the nonsense B.S-ers that we see today.

The worst thing is that have spawned a new generation of these zombies in "farang" as well.  Look at Reza Aslan!

One day, my brother, it will be our day, and on that day, these anti_iran creatures better find a "sooraakh" to hide in.

 


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SamSamIIII

My dear pal

by SamSamIIII on Tue Mar 08, 2011 04:47 PM PST

 

AO jaan,  in Iran, their version suffered from what I call "Javad comes to city syndrom" in which most of these characters came to big cities as freshman students and went thru the 3 phase orientation of Awe, Sad, Mad  or Samad ;). & just like newbies that they were they fell for the first book they read and in those days these books happened to be mostly about leftist's mumbo nonsense passed on as trendy & hip from one Samad/Samieh to the next. Yet keep in mind that these stateless zombie recruits of this hype came from a few specific ethno-religious backgrounds who were disillusioned, alienated & at odds with fast social/cultural reforms in urban centres & to be fair, rightly so(atleast in their eyes). 

Cheers good bro & Kudos to another great piece !!!

 

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