Here at the Republic, we are not known for our fastidious ongoing coverage of current affairs nor our fastidious grooming habits. Quite frankly, there are comrades far better at it than I.
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My solidarity is, naturally given my zio-infected mind hole, with the 'Tehran Trendies'. Much of the twentieth century was a competition between totalitarians and theocrats over who could make capitalism look good. The Islamic 'Republic' is a delightful mix of both. Thirty years of being force fed this scrumptious cocktail on top of 25 years of 'enlightened despotism' has left millions of 'Gucci glad covert agents of Bibi' feeling worse for wear. Having lived through hypocritical repression, the attritional warfare of the Iran-Iraq war and having been materialistically failed completely, the 'twitter-archy' ceased to take an election stolen so insultingly obviously on the chin.
Yes, none of the candidates are Lincoln. Yes, twitter is hardly the samizdat of the poorest of the poor and Yes, Iran remains a country deeply rooted to religion. None of this changes there is only one 'side' here worthy of support. Those much derided students and the assorted vanguardist capitalist infidel nokia charged cat pigs have taken to the streets to protest. They have been beaten, imprisoned and killed. The Trade Unions have come out in their support. They have organised and attended demos far beyond the evil that is North Tehran. If members of SWSS, a proper fully non-bourgeois student sect (hardy sons of the soil ona and all) had a hundredth of the bravery of those effete troublemakers, then you might actually have get somewhere.
Short Order Cook said it best
'About 0.6% of Twitter’s users are in Iran, which is about on a par with other 3rd world countries like Ireland, France, Russia and South Korea.
On Facebook, Iran contains 1.3% of the world’s users, which is the same amount as other countries filled with backwards peasants such as Argentina, Mexico and Venezuela.
This is only to be expected, as like these other countries, a huge majority of the population (30%) live outside cities and only a tiny proportion (30%) are educated to A level standard or higher. Plus, there are only a handful of university students in the country (3.5 million), and these are the ones who usually cause trouble in these kinds of situations.
Unemployment stands at only 20% and inflation is low at 24%, having reached a peak of only 30% a couple of months ago. With figures like these it’s not surprising that the Iranian people are happy with the sterling job that Ahmadinejad is doing!'
Also see here
"Iran and its citizens are considered by the Shiite theocracy to be the private property of the anointed mullahs. This totalitarian idea was originally based on a piece of religious quackery promulgated by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and known as velayat-e faqui. Under the terms of this edict—which originally placed the clerics in charge of the lives and property of orphans, the indigent, and the insane—the entire population is now declared to be a childlike ward of the black-robed state"
Such naughty children!
One thing that has surprised me, even more than the bravery and courage of the 'neo-liberal traitors to the mighty anti-Imperialist meta-narrative', has been the increasing unease of the usual anti-Imperialists over weather to excuse this 'internal affair'. Whilst the professional schills have been hard at work, the part-timers have been either supportive (at times superbly so) of the protests, silenced by confusion or driven insane bridging the gaps. Turning point or no, interesting methinks.
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Thanks for that, you write so well, any chance of a bourgeois black and white colour scheme?
:)
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