{"id":3079,"date":"2009-06-16T18:22:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T08:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=3079"},"modified":"2009-06-17T01:24:43","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T15:24:43","slug":"hail-ahmadinejad-hail-chavez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=3079","title":{"rendered":"Hail Ahmadinejad! Hail Ch\u00e1vez!"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul><em>See also<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.theatlantic.com\/2009\/06\/follow_the_developments_in_iran_like_a_cia_analyst.php\">Follow The Developments In Iran Like A CIA Analyst<\/a>, Marc Ambinder, <em>The Altantic Monthly<\/em>, June 15, 2009.<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2433\/3632057380_a59d0814b5.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>30 years ago, dead French <em>philosophe<\/em> Michel Foucault hailed the Islamic Revolution. <em>See<\/em> :  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpunj.edu\/newpol\/issue37\/Afary37.htm\">\u2018The Seductions of Islamism: Revisiting Foucault and the Iranian Revolution\u2019<\/a>, Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson, <em>New Politics<\/em>, Vol. 10, No. 1, Summer 2004:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Iranian experience&#8230; raises some serious questions about Foucault&#8217;s thought. <strong>First<\/strong>, it is often assumed that Foucault&#8217;s suspicion of utopianism, his hostility to grand narratives and universals, and his stress on difference and singularity rather than totality, would make him less likely than his predecessors on the left to <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1147\">romanticize an authoritarian politics that promised radically to refashion from above the lives and thought of a people, for their ostensible benefit<\/a>. However, his Iran writings showed that Foucault was not immune to the type of illusions that so many Western leftists had held toward the Soviet Union and later, China&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second<\/strong>, Foucault&#8217;s highly problematic relationship to feminism becomes more than an intellectual lacuna in the case of Iran. On a few occasions, Foucault reproduced statements he had heard from religious figures on gender relations in a possible future Islamic republic, but he never questioned the &#8220;separate but equal&#8221; message of the Islamists. Foucault also dismissed feminist premonitions that the revolution was headed in a dangerous direction&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third<\/strong>, an examination of Foucault&#8217;s writings provides more support for the frequently-articulated criticism that his one-sided critique of modernity needs to be seriously reconsidered, especially from the vantage point of many non-Western societies&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Holocaust-denying-war-hero-with-the-gammy-leg&#8217;s magnificent victory in the recent Presidential election has been greeted with rapt enthusiasm by another contemporary <a href=\"http:\/\/venezuelasolidarity.org\/?q=node\/160\">hero<\/a> of the authoritarian left: Venezuelan President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez (Ch\u00e1vez congratulates Ahmadinejad, <em>Tehran Times<\/em>, June 14, 2009):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Venezuelan President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez has congratulated his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for the success of his re-election bid, in yesterday&#8217;s poll.<\/p>\n<p>In a telephone conversation with the Iranian president, Ch\u00e1vez said, &#8220;The victory of Dr. Ahmadinejad in the recent election is a win for all people in the world and free nations against global arrogance,&#8221; Iran&#8217;s Presidential Office reported. Ch\u00e1vez usually uses the term &#8220;global arrogance&#8221; to refer to Venezuela&#8217;s arch-foe the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The call came after preliminary results were announced by the Interior Ministry saying that Iran&#8217;s incumbent president has won a landslide victory, gaining more than 64 percent of the votes.<\/p>\n<p>Ch\u00e1vez also noted that the Venezuelan people and government always stand behind the Iranians.<\/p>\n<p>In his reply, Ahmadinejad said that, &#8220;Despite all pressures, the nation of Iran had completely won (the election) and indeed this victory shows the clear road for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before the start of the election too, the socialist leader had wished Ahmadinejad good luck in his re-election bid.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to supporters Thursday, Ch\u00e1vez called the Iranian president &#8220;a courageous fighter for the Islamic Revolution, the defense of the Third World, and in the struggle against imperialism.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite receiving the tick of approval from <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1695\">Uncle Hugo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=969#comment-166843\">right-wing<\/a>, counter-revolutionary scum &#8212; obviously acting under orders of the CIA &#8212; have taken <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zow9UFveejI\">to the streets<\/a> in protest at the result of what is alleged to be a fraudulent election.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Iranian police and civilian militias have responded promptly to this latest assault upon revolution, the Third World, and anti-imperialism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/deliverators.typepad.com\/deliverators\/2009\/06\/iran-coup-and-insurrection.html\">Hail!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See also : Follow The Developments In Iran Like A CIA Analyst, Marc Ambinder, The Altantic Monthly, June 15, 2009. 30 years ago, dead French philosophe Michel Foucault hailed the Islamic Revolution. 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