[DEBATE] : Ayatollah Montazeri Decrees Baha'is 'Rightful Citizens of Iran'

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Such a legalisation would be good news for?socialism but disastrous for the
SACP. Their deeply mediocre?party relies upon its outcast status for
most of its tatty mystique. This is a?communism of sycophants. Not
revolutionary, and having?only the imagination to be petty, as Dominic has?again demonstrated.
This a communism of the apparatchiks of the?ANC and the middling
functionaries of its Zuma wing. It is a?communism of silly quants, who
bicker and shun, exclude and ingratiate, and fawn upon their Central Committee
throned in the past. The SACP?stands in relation to transformation roughly as the Mormons 
stand in relation to the Catholic Church. If their petty whackiness was not so unpleasantly arrogant,
it would be merely ridiculous. As it is, it lacks even the saving grace of absurdity.? 

Let alone of humility.




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From: Dominic Tweedie <dominic.tweedie at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [DEBATE] : Ayatollah Montazeri Decrees Baha'is 'Rightful Citizens of Iran'



Such a legalisation would be good news for Iran but disastrous for the
Baha'is. Their deeply mediocre religion relies upon its outcast status for
most of its tatty mystique. This is a religion of accountants. Not
bourgeois, and lacking even the imagination to be petty-bourgeois,
this a religion of the apparatchiks of the bourgeois state and the middling
functionaries of its corporations. It is a religion of silly quants, who
bicker and shun, exclude and ingratiate, and fawn upon their nine-man
composite Pope, throned in Israel. The Baha'is stand in relation to Islam
roughly as the Mormons stand in relation to the Catholic Church. If their
petty whackiness was not so unpleasantly arrogant, it would be merely
ridiculous. As it is, it lacks even the saving grace of absurdity.