Doug Henwood Talks

[I can’t read everything that goes by, but I’ve read enough of
Yoshie’s writings on Iran to know that I disagree with them. And I
find it distressing to see a branch of MR, a publication with a long
history of secularism and Marxism, be used as a transmission belt for
apologetics for a reactionary theocratic regime. Yeah, so it’s
sweetened with a bit of populist economics, but populist economics
are mostly pretty dodgy, as most Marxist economists would be eager to
show.]

Begin forwarded message:

From: “Yoshie Furuhashi” critical.montages@gmail.com Date: July 10, 2006 7:31:35 PM EDT To: “Doug Henwood” dhenwood@panix.com Cc: “Jim Devine” jdevine03@gmail.com, “Carrol Cox”
cbcox@ilstu.edu, “Chris Doss” lookoverhere1@yahoo.com Subject: “dialogue” takes listening on your part, too

Dear Doug:

On Jul 10, 2006, at 3:10 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

Now, I’m signing off again.

Ah, dialogue.

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/11/21/iran12072.htm

Iran: Two More Executions for Homosexual Conduct

(New York, November 22, 2005) – Iran’s execution of two men last week for homosexual conduct highlights a pattern of persecution of gay men that stands in stark violation of the rights to life and privacy, Human Rights Watch said today.

What you posted is exactly the same thing as what Steven L. Robinson posted on June 28 , to which I responded on the same day: .

You are posting it again, as if I had never said anything about it, however. It’s clear that you aren’t interested in what I actually said.

It takes two to dialogue, but you can’t listen and respond except to a person who doesn’t disagree with you. That’s why I unsubbed from LBO-talk and won’t be coming back as a regular poster. Whatever I say there, I get no considered response from you that takes into account the content of my writing in any way whatsoever. It’s like I don’t exist as far as you are concerned.

You can post this to LBO-talk if you like, but you don’t have to feel obligated to do so.

I’m cc’ing this note to Jim, Carrol, and Chris because they asked me

why I unsubbed.

Yoshie http://montages.blogspot.com/ http://mrzine.org http://monthlyreview.org/

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 11th, 2006 at 5:24 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.