Since it can, he says, have many meanings, it is therefore only good for the bourgeoisie, etc., while the slogan "equality between men and women and workers' power" is not vague and exploitable by the capitalist forces.
Yes, we saw that, about what this likable (and probably tortured man but sectarian) Marxist watermelon-head says too.
We saw it in the Soviet Union, but also in North Korea.
What can I say?
Another consistent Iranian Marxist who wanted to criticize a frontal trade union and democratic text promoted through Iranian trade unions and social organizations, (probably inspired mainly by the Hekmatist Communist Party) as a Charter of Minimum Demands (to the regime) did not criticize the deficit bourgeois democratic character of this declaration but the fact that it is bourgeois democratic, therefore rejectable anyway.
We also had an interestingly schizoid dialogue through an automatic translator, where when I asked him to tell me why he does not even rhetorically advance the incompleteness of this declaration in terms of the demand for a bourgeois democratic change that will be complete, he told me that the real communists in Iran they have a socialist agenda and that such a framework would not make sense because anyway the Iranian bourgeoisie cannot and does not want bourgeois democracy because if it wanted and could it would have claimed it and succeeded.
I didn't even bother to talk to him about the broader concept of Democracy, because as you can see we wouldn't get a common point through references to Lenin and Marx, here we really don't get a common point with former or current leftist Eurocommunists, with the tough and justifiably hard-line Iranian Marxist would we it get common point?
In any case, I had raised the issue a little earlier with the Iranian leftists, also critical of the Charter of Minimum Requirements, as a matter of democracy which, according to my standards, cannot exist without first a constituent assembly and then a permanent assembly by directly and freely elected representatives of the people.
What in bourgeois terms is a parliament in new socialist class labor terms could in combination with grassroots workers' and people's councils be a modern radical and not socialdemocratic socialism.
In any case, because the non-capitalist version of such a democratic framework is, as I said, no longer comprehensible even to formerly Euro-communist ears, I did not insist on any discussion about the form of the (not only) representative socialist democracy, and I limited myself to the discussion and my intervention in the Iranian friends in even tactical support of a bourgeois democratic transition in Iran.
They neither had cared nor care now, their (Bolshevist or non-Bolshevist) sectarianism and their Bolshevism are deeply rooted things.
There was also a final (indirect) response (from the Iranian Kurd I mentioned at the beginning, not the one I had the conversation with) on what I suggested (and is suggested also as I saw by an Iranian communist group that is discussing it independently of me)(for what we call a national assembly, as defined in the standard terminology of political science and as a standard political term, etc.).
His answer was simple and decisive.
This slogan is both bourgeois and reactionary, that is, it is rejected.
They dismiss it, also, maybe unintended, Hekmatists who are more normal guys and good guys at a lot, so you get it, no hope, nothing, void, zero.
The left and anarchism are in permanent crisis everywhere, and they do not intend to overcome their authoritarian Bonapartist plans, justifying this attitude mainly with the authoritarianism and fascism of the class opponent.
- مطالبات بورژوا دمکراتیک مطالبات بورژوا دمکراتیک است؛ چه فرقی میکند چه کسی پرچم آن را برداشته است، مگر آنکه سانتریستها بگویند ما از آن دسته مطالبات بورژوا دمکراتیکی دفاع میکنیم که ۲۰ امضای پرولتاریا پای آن باشد![πρόχειρη αυτόματη μετάφραση:Οι δημοκρατικές αστικές απαιτήσεις είναι δημοκρατικές αστικές, δεν έχει σημασία ποιος σηκώνει τη σημαία, εκτός αν οι κεντριστές πουν ότι υπερασπιζόμαστε αυτές τις δημοκρατικές αστικές απαιτήσεις, οι οποίες έχουν 200 προλεταριακές υπογραφές!]