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The Revolutionary Bourgeois
By Judah Grunstein
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15 Jun 2009
Another thought:
If Ahmadinejad did actually win, and the reformists end up overturning
the regime, our sympathy would essentially be going to a minority-rule
regime of the privileged urban elites over the rural masses. In other
words, exactly the kind of revolution that progressive Americans have
generally been opposed to. The '60s and '70s Latin American revolutions
so popular with the American left, for instance, were the exact
opposite: peasant revolutions against urban elites.
Very interesting how globalization has essentially closed the age of
the proletarian/peasant revolution and restored, on a planetary scale, the original
revolutionary bourgeois of the 18th century.