Re: IWW piece on Iranian labor situation
On Apr 20, 2007, at 11:47 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
Yoshie:
No, he’s just honest. Ideas and sentiments like his, in favor of colonialism and imperialism, were once quite common* among Western
[WS:] Oh absolutely. I honestly thing that all this talk about =
imperialism is either cover up for the authoritarianism, corruption and =
ineptitude of Third World governments, or silly contumacy of blas=E9 Western =
intellectuals who say it to shock the public.
So all that stuff about the Brits cutting the legs off Kenyans who =
weren’t working hard enough and the U.S. killing three million =
Indochinese - all that’s just in the spirit of epater la bourgeoisie?
Doug