[A-List] 'Rafsanjani, Mousavi Vow Support to End Unrest'

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Yoshie
Furuhashi<critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 4:14 PM,
> Leighm<the.buffalo.in.the.midst at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Do you consider that 'revolution'?
>
> No.  Revolution takes more than a collection of grievances, no matter
> how justified they are.  This is a case of young people attaching
> their just causes (aspirations for freedom) to an unjust
> anti-democratic cause of the bourgeoisie chafing under the
> petit-bourgeois republican regime.
>
> Yoshie

In case it wasn't clear, I was talking about Iran, not California.
I can't find an analogous situation in the West.
The Democratic Party of Japan (which mixes economic liberalism with
social and cultural liberalism) is a little bit like
Mousavi/Rafsanjani, though in Japan working people have the JCP, so
they don't need to make a choice between the DP and the LDP.

Yoshie