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Article6
Response to Article1
By
DDD
Here is
DDD’s response to ghandchi:
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Sam Ghandchi wrote:
>I
am presenting a new angle in my whole posting and my
>angle
is to view our history from the viewpoint of someone who
>thinks
everyone has had choices; and has made right and wrong
>choices; rather than seeing things as inevitable.
Mr
Ghandchi wrote an interesting posting on the
sensationalist
trend
of Iranian intellectuals. I should add that I have a
deterministic view on this free will theory. We should realize how
a
dictatorship brutalizes and radicalizes its opposition. A dictatorship
doesn't
give room for liberal personalities to grow. If we look at
Bolsheviks
in
people
with organisatory capabilities under its dictatorship
to
rise among the social democrats. It was Stalin who sat
with
the organisatory responsibilities and power and not
people
like Pelkhanov. It was because only brutal
personalities
like
Stalin could organize under that brutal circumstances.
This
gave Stalin after the vrevolution the leverage to
wipe
out any moderate personality. So Tsarism carries a
lot
of
responsibility for how the opposition came to develop.
The same
is true during the Shah time and among many
liberal
personalities are inherently more difficult to
organize
and less adventurist and courageous than extremists.
Let us
see what is happening in
for
radicalizing and brutalizing Palestinian
opposition.
When
even the liberal literature was forbidden under Shah's regime
we
could not expect more of our illiterate and uninformed
intellectuals! Ofcourse the transitory nature of our
economy
had
also created a lot of social classes in movement which
itself
made extremism a more natural choice. For those reasons
I
believe those who have lead a people towards victory against
a
dictatorship aren't always quallified to run the
country after
the
overtaking of the power.
Best
Regards
- DDD