[lit-ideas] Re: Ahmadinejad's Letter to Bush
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 08:17:42 -0700 (PDT)
--- Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When Khomeini took over Iran, he didn't intend that
> his Revolution should be
> just for Iran. He wanted it to be for the entire
> world. He very actively
> attempted to export his Militant Islamic ideology to
> other countries.
> Unfortunately for him one of the most natural
> countries to receive his
> ideology was Iraq because of the huge numbers of
> Iraqi Shiites on his
> border. Saddam Hussein did indeed initiate the war
> against Iran but he did
> so in order to stop Khomeini from converting his
> Shiites. Other attempts to
> the north, to the former SSRs have been ongoing.
> Iran got to Azerbiajan
> early and whether or not they have precisely
> accepted the Revolution they
> have sworn common cause with Iran.
*Yes, I think that this will be more or less correct
on the level of ideology. (Although Khomeini did not
attack countries in order to export the Islamic
revolution.) But then, we know about Fukuyama don't we
? Hoping that one's personal values will eventually
prevail everywhere is found in places other than the
US.
I seem to remember having read that Trotsky wanted to
export the Bolshevik Revolution, while Stalin prefered
the concept of "Socialism in one country." It seems
that the Troskysts are prevailant right now.
O.K.
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