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Dirty Angel STOP FIBBING!

Correction. I got the wrong hotel and wrong "movement". ,but still, all isn't and it seems that Brecht and Kokoshka did stay there at some stage, but not necessarity on a stag.

Shasdeh -  my spot of death of a chum. ;)

"The paradox of freedom: sometimes people freely choose not to be free."

شما هم درست میگوید امیر خان

Except that the IRI has placed a very large amount of its emphasis on AN ... almost 90% of their eggs are in his basket. So once the AN trips and falls, the entire regime will be in deep trouble.

Shazde,

AN is the ultimate punch-bag, bad-guy, butt-of-the-jokes. 

Yes, but AN-e Botshekan is not the only AN. There are many ANs leading the IRI regime (and on Iranian.com too)...Mokhlesetam.

امیر جان

In an anonymous forum like this, it is less important who we "are"; and more important is what we say.

I am glad that you enjoyed. AN is the ultimate punch-bag, bad-guy, butt-of-the-jokes. He is like the George W of Iran. We will miss him soon!

Shazde,

Whatever you may or may not be, your comment below was a gem:

However, in case of Ahmaghi Nutjob, he is currently so desperate that he is claiming to be everything to everyone:

1. Keeper of the Persian traditions and the legacy of Cyrus;

2. Agent of the 12th Imam and his 300-person army;

3. Servant to all the working people of Iran;

4. Arch-enemy of the evil West and its leader, the US of A;

5. The great detective who has just uncovered that the Americans themselves did the 9-11. 

NP: but you are shouting with all-small ... for help for hope

I mean what made me write that "apology" blog was not your arguments and analyses, but your clear hope and wish for a way out, for a way to a good-place.

Your all-small font texts are constantly crying for that escape route, wishing upon wish that the nightmare is just an illusion and that Iran will be ok, and that the world will be ok.

That's why I wrote the apology, because I hadn't been considerate enough to see it before.

Can we live without hope, without faith, with the cold iron of ruthless reality against our foreheads every night? Should I blame you if you don't want to? Should I blame all my "good friends" on this site, who are also passionately (often secretly) still in love with their fantasy faiths and ideologies (Shah, Mosaddeg, Bahai, Tudeh, MEK, Fedaiyan, etc)?

But there is hope! It is in forgiveness, in love and in peace. It's a soft spell, which I don't have but have seen in others, that can cure wounds, wars and wickedness.

well i did

write my latest blog with normal fonts. mainly because of feedback like yours.

one good thing about small fonts: it's impossible to shout with them!

dear niloufar

my problem is not sticking to principles, but avoiding anger. i feel like being in the first session of an anger management class:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv7u07-wcm4&feature=related

anyway, there is only one real social enemy worth fighting, i.e. the "closed-society" advocates. those can be fascist, islamist, communist, christian fundamentalist, absolut monarchists, etc.

about the small font: how is it when you are at the receiving end?

shazde

am not a fan of your occasionally caustic tone, but i do admire how you stick to the principle you believe in no matter who is involved. it's a hard task, and you are bound to get it from all sides. 

it's a slippery slope when we start compromising on our principles for the sake of a political goal. it's how a shahi or marxist or zionist or neocon or political islamist ends up being so violent despite their own core beliefs. it's the end justifying the means.

oops! sorry about yet another 'annoying smart text'! :)

Hoshang, what about the case of "Roozbeh Gilani" saying:

"Take their keyboards away, put a shovel in their soft sweaty hands, work the buggers to death, then use them as organic fertelisers to feed the masses."

Comrade pol_pot

The above quotation is directly from his comment (10 rows below) on this same blog. Isn't that criminal? Doesn't that call for legal action?

Shazdeh, missed your response, so here's mine, a week late!

Hate speech does merit legal action. Calling for people who have opposed IR to be exceuted for their opposition is hate speech and it warrents legal action.

Besides, moment, moment, I just remembered,  he used to be a disgusting socialist (as opposed to a good socialist, like: Khalil Malaki,Morteza Kayvan,  ...), just that in itself, calls for the most extensive legal case!

فرح خانم روستا

You are sharp as ever!

Let me agree with you and even up the wager, by saying that:

I have only ever seen one non-champagne commie!

The man was a true angel and spit on the face of his Tudeh Party handlers, after their complete inactivity during the 28 of Mordad coup, and their sheepish compliance with the US/Russia agreements!

Dear Angel

You are both funny and witty ... please don't ever leave us alone!

And yes, as you say, all those apparently "scientific ideologies" are both religious (in the worst sense) in their structure, hierarchy and practices.

Where else can one get killed for opposing an ideology:

I.R. Iran and

North Korea!

آقا ایرانی‌

You have a good point, but let's keep it general and not personal.

The populist dictators like Ahmaghi, Mugabe and Edi Amin have always claimed that they are the "real friends of people" and the advocates of real "socialism". Even Hitler considered himself a socialist!

However, in case of Ahmaghi Nutjob, he is currently so desperate that he is claiming to be everything to everyone:

1. Keeper of the Persian traditions and the legacy of Cyrus;

2. Agent of the 12th Imam and his 300-person army;

3. Servant to all the working people of Iran;

4. Arch-enemy of the evil West and its leader, the US of A;

5. The great detective who has just uncovered that the Americans themselves did the 9-11.

And the list goes on and on, .... and will go on and on, until this monkey is removed.

Niloufar Parsi

Yes, your all-small texts are really annoying ... to me at least! But then again, my style is annoying to many too.

You deserved that apology and I hope that the two dozen curses and attacks that I received after that, can count as penance for my rude and unkind behavior to you, in the past.

هوشنگ ترگل

Well, I am not sure why AO's case or anyone here, who is not advocating a crime, merits legal action. I hate his style, message and actions, but he is entitled to his point of view!

Roozbeh: are you advocating genocide - like in Cambodia?

Your comment is disgusting and criminal, because you are repeating the genocidal motto of the Cambodia Communists who turned millions of people into Human-Fertilizer for their infamous Killing-Fields.

Shame on you and all the murderous communists!

shazde agha

I just watched Ahmaghis speech at the UN about the shortcomings of capitalism.

It made me think how uncanny it was that NP started a blog on political economy, capitalism and socialism the week before Ahmaghi delivers such a speech which is so different from his usual anti-semitic diatribe.

I wanted to post this comment on your 'apology to NP' blog but couldn't.  Anyhow my point is this - do you think NP's blog on socialism etc the week before this speech is mere coincidence or could you be mistaken in your assumption that (s)he is not an islamist agent?  

"but it's blocked'

Ahhh, Shaboon_bi_mokh in exile got his wings clipped and sent packing with tears in his eyes by the humorous division of the glorious  Red army, La jolla branch :)

"Take their keyboards away, put a shovel in their soft sweaty hands, work the buggers to death, then use them as organic fertelisers to feed the masses."

Comrade pol_pot (or someone like him) :) 

shazde

thanks for the sincere and moving apology. accepted!

but My! you gave me such a surprise... :)

tried to respond to the blog itself, but it's blocked.

in fact, on this topic, we are very much in agreement.

ps u really think i should stop using small caps?

hammer and sickle

'can't comment on your other blog, but suffices to say that those "ideologies" that you loathe are entirely religious in their hierarchical structures (add Nazis to that),slavery, lazy lack of responsiblity , worshipping crackpot jobs. Hitchens calls, and quite rightly so, North Korea, a necrocracy.

As for hammer and sickle eye-ranian style. It's for chizzeling in rhinoplasty.

One knows/nose for all!

"The paradox of freedom: sometimes people freely choose not to be free."

HT, T, Gh gh Gh Gh ;)

Could be, because Brecht was definitely in Gstaad at some stage.

Responding to homework in a mo

"The paradox of freedom: sometimes people freely choose not to be free."

DA, A) Could that have been Walter Benjamin?

B) have  you see your Marcuse "homework" yet?

Marx and Gstaad

Damn and darn it. I can't remember accurately, but I do know that during the Nazi occupation of Germany, the Palasthotel took in loads of refugees and amongst them were a famous Marxist writer and a painter too. 

I just thought I should add that to confuse the whole thing even more.

"The paradox of freedom: sometimes people freely choose not to be free."

My Dearest Abjey Nariman aka NP

there's a thing called persona, just in case you might have missed it with Shazdeh in here.

Yes, he does have his moments, in San Francisco.

shazde khan-e geej

it's up to you if you wanna sound idiotic enough to bring 'allah' into 'socialism'. this is your choice.

but why they heck do you misread and misreprsent what i write? don't you have anything better to do? especially given that you have plagiarised much of my blog into your own text and comments. i don't mind that. am glad to teach you one or two things.

you have your moments, but don't take yourself too seriously kid. your oppportunism and untrustworthy character screams out - just like the original shazde.

Rea, Shazde

Sorry Rea, my bad , the Persian text is some cussing on Pol Pot's soul, as he deserves every single one of them, and raising the possibilty that perhaps within the socialist discourse and tradition there are some mis-guided intrepetations, the link is an essay by an American Lefty Prof. Hal Draper, "Two Souls of Socialism," which discusses the two versions. What is you excuse for not learning Persian, you're missing a lot of very  good humor in here my friend.

Shazde, where were you, it took a while for your reply, was wondering if you had gone to San Francisco, or Pol Pot took you away, or,,,

Btw , thanks a lot for your Albanian suggestion, though the only thing going up there is doctors right index finger, once a year ( you know old age &...). I have a feeling IR's people also wouldn't mind paying  a visit there, but that's not the topic.

You mentioned all kinds of Leftist except Irish ones ( James Connolly, James Larkin,..). They mostly drink whisky and Guinness, very nice combo, up to your fifth shot...& then

Since you correctly despise and hate all those stalinist a-holes, how about the one posting his stuff in here with his own name, AO. As I have mentioned before, his case merits legal action. Lets do him a big favour, please. 

Come on guys don't be shy

Don't tell me there are no champagne (correct spelling by the way) socialists in your midst. I can see a few already :))

FR

H. Targol

Will read the link later.

As for your post, hélas, am not a Farsi speaker.

In fact, I come from an x-communist country. So I hate anything even remotely related to communists.

Am here solely to spy on IC.  ;o)

Best cure for Comrade's Hangover :o)

1. Sleep and rest are your best friends.
2. Help your body with fruit juice and water.
3. Avoid caffeine, because it can dehydrate you.
4. Russian commies liked to drink pickle juice, but you don't!
5. True Stalinists would drink a Bloody Mary, but you shouldn't. 
6. In Cambodia, they used to cure hangover by burying you up to the neck in sand. Aren't you glad that those guys are gone? 
7. Don't try the Albanian recipe (coffee enema).