The Goddess of democracy shines on Iran

[Candy Randy]

6/14/2009
Tienanmen Square 1989: Iranian Style 2009
“I have stated the chief practical reason of the power still exercised today over the masses by religious beliefs. These mystical tendencies do not signify in man so much an aberration of mind as a deep discontent at Heart. They are the instinctive and passionate protest of the human being against the narrowness, the platitudes, the sorrows, and the shame of a wretched existence. For this malady, I have already said, there is but one remedy-Social Revolution.”
Michael Bakunin 1873, “God and the State”

Once again, my friends and foes, the Neo-Conservatives (Aka: Neo-Liberals) are proven wrong. They have been telling us for eight years that you can export democracy through military force of an invading army. It has never worked in the past, nor does it presently. Iraq is NOT better off, including during Saddam or since. What U.S. Imperialism did, basically, was trade a secular dictatorship for an Islamic theocracy. Iraq is not a free country, unless you buy the Right Wing propaganda. The only benefit the invasion provided was in giving access to the U.S. oil magnets for control. This succeeded, while the Iraqi peasants obtain nothing from their oil reserves. Most of the money goes to the Iraqi ruling class, and the rest goes to American oil titans. You see, Democracy for the rich and nothing for the poor. All that trickles down to the poor are the teardrops of the bourgeois liberals, and the conservative rich pigs’ piss on a wall of neglect. Iraq traded one disease for another.
The only way a nation can achieve big D democracy is through revolution: bloody or peaceful. What is happening in Iran at this moment in history is a spontaneous combustion of violence. After decades of theocratic repression, the youth are having an early stage temper tantrum. Rebellion is in the genetic code of youth. 75% of Iran’s population is under 30. After 1979, Iran didn’t have a baby boom, but a baby explosion! The working class could be emboldened by the antics by roving and marauding youth.
These riots were decades in the making. They are not about the election of Ahmadinejad, with Mousavi getting the Al Gore treatment. No! This is the first shot of a pro-democracy revolution. It may take years or decades to become a full-blown, armed struggle. The pro-democracy movement still lives in China. However, not only are the Chinese peasants fighting a Stalinist mega-state, but they also fighting against U.S. Imperialism, which supports a Red Chinese state. Their revolution may take years. Iran, on the other hand, is run by rich sheiks who pretend to be religious and a government full of men who talk to God. The Atheist underground in Iran has a vibrant movement. They smuggle in western contraband like blue jeans, hip-hop C.D’s, and even Left Wing propaganda.
So, who will be the in vanguard in this Iranian revolution? Social Democrats? Socialists? Communists? Anarchists? Anarcho-Capitalists? Liberal Democrats? Who? Maybe Islamo-Progressives? Nobody really knows. The most important plan now is to destroy the state and worry what will replace it later.

Off topic alert: This link is for fans of classic punk. If you do not like this sort of entertainment, DO NOT CLICK ON IT!
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/4947150/13172262

[Warpy]

1. The revolution of 1978 was like this, too

but then it went terribly wrong, hijacked by religious fundamentalists.

I suggest reading the unimpressively titled "Reading Lolita in Tehran" for a good insight into what happened during the next few years. The parallels between that and the fundamentalist hijacking of the GOP are eerie.

http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Lolita-Tehran-Memoir-Books/dp/081297106X