Dr. Shirin Ebadi, the first female Muslim and the first Iranian to win a Nobel Prize gave a press conference and spoke to the media in Toronto last night. The media conference was organized by the Canadian International Peace Project. One telling factoid -- Dr. Ebadi, a judge and human rights activist in Iran, was removed from her position as a judge. Why? Because of her opposition to the government (no, although that led to her exile)? She was removed solely because of her gender (although to soften the blow she was offered a position typing for the Court she had presided over)... .
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German socialist Rudolf Bahro wrote a great book in the seventies titled ‘Alternatives for Eastern Europe’. In it he describes how the Soviet system cannot last because, by educating its people, the Soviet system was producing a surplus of consciousness. People acquired intellectual tools but were denied the ability to use them. This surplus of consciousness is exactly where Gorbachev’s reformist impulses came from.
The same conditions exist in Iran and are why the present Iranian regime will fail. Hopefully they will manage the transition better than Russia.
wsam
Thanks for this
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