A young Iranian woman who fell into a coma after being arrested in Tehran by the notorious morality police died on Friday, state media and her family said, with activists urging those responsible for her "suspicious" death be brought to justice.
:burning cop car emote:
Idk kinda looks like a george floyd moment in Iran
I’m pretty torn on Iran’s government, on one hand they are weirdly forward thinking in places like trans rights and they act as a bulwark against American intervention in the region. On the other hand they are most definitely not leftist, but they occupy the same void that Russia does in that it has a legacy of a leftist government which is better than not having it.
I’m not sure if it would be better for the communist project in the long run if a color revolution were to sweep over Iran, I’m afraid it would make the country lean more towards the United States and adopt liberalism which in my opinion is not worth the trade of increased social rights. I’m still of the opinion that Iran needs a nuke and shouldn’t have its government overthrown.
I think the best thing that could possibly happen is if Iran were to adopt sweeping social reforms on sexuality, gender, and race while avoiding westernizing and still maintaining some degree of its Islamicness. I think the worst thing that leftists deal with right now is that a lot of the social justice and gender theory stuff is mostly seen as an American thing that’s divorced from the economic aspects of leftism. So if Iran were to adopt it as state policy it would help mend the divide a little and would introduce a more progressive version of Islam.
The worst case scenario is an Afghanistan situation where there’s a bunch of wokewashing in major cities and the countryside becomes infested with reactionary chuds who sadly would be the anti imperialist faction. There’s a fine line to walk between anti imperialism and social justice and some might call it a false dichotomy to be forced to pick between the two but sometimes you gotta support shitty regimes because not doing so would lead to an even greater calamity. I guess what I’m trying to say is critical support for Iran, I hope they reform but we shouldn’t cry if they crack down on this.
I mean i don't want the US to overthrow the iranian government either but it's also incredibly easy for police not to beat women to death and it's also incredibly easy to not start fingerwagging instead of punishing them.
And yes, the US does use gender, sexuality, race related ngos to exert soft power but when a government actively chooses on doubling down on the racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, that's a very legitimate thing to criticise.
In Latin America they excel in this, there's absolutely no reason for the Iranian (or Russian or any other anti-imperialist "heroes") government to not adapt the policies you mentioned. What would happen? The USA would fund 70 year old men to overthrow the government?
I’m pretty torn on Iran’s government, on one hand they are weirdly forward thinking in places like trans rights and they act as a bulwark against American intervention in the region. On the other hand they are most definitely not leftist, but they occupy the same void that Russia does in that it has a legacy of a leftist government which is better than not having it.
I’m not sure if it would be better for the communist project in the long run if a color revolution were to sweep over Iran, I’m afraid it would make the country lean more towards the United States and adopt liberalism which in my opinion is not worth the trade of increased social rights. I’m still of the opinion that Iran needs a nuke and shouldn’t have its government overthrown.
I think the best thing that could possibly happen is if Iran were to adopt sweeping social reforms on sexuality, gender, and race while avoiding westernizing and still maintaining some degree of its Islamicness. I think the worst thing that leftists deal with right now is that a lot of the social justice and gender theory stuff is mostly seen as an American thing that’s divorced from the economic aspects of leftism. So if Iran were to adopt it as state policy it would help mend the divide a little and would introduce a more progressive version of Islam.
The worst case scenario is an Afghanistan situation where there’s a bunch of wokewashing in major cities and the countryside becomes infested with reactionary chuds who sadly would be the anti imperialist faction. There’s a fine line to walk between anti imperialism and social justice and some might call it a false dichotomy to be forced to pick between the two but sometimes you gotta support shitty regimes because not doing so would lead to an even greater calamity. I guess what I’m trying to say is critical support for Iran, I hope they reform but we shouldn’t cry if they crack down on this.
I mean i don't want the US to overthrow the iranian government either but it's also incredibly easy for police not to beat women to death and it's also incredibly easy to not start fingerwagging instead of punishing them.
And yes, the US does use gender, sexuality, race related ngos to exert soft power but when a government actively chooses on doubling down on the racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, that's a very legitimate thing to criticise.
In Latin America they excel in this, there's absolutely no reason for the Iranian (or Russian or any other anti-imperialist "heroes") government to not adapt the policies you mentioned. What would happen? The USA would fund 70 year old men to overthrow the government?