Ahmadinejad is not the hero of the Islamist poor but a corrupt Islamofascist populist, a kind of Iranian Berlusconi whose mixture of clowning posturing and ruthless power politics is causing unease even among the ayatollahs. His demagogic distribution of crumbs to the poor shouldn't deceive us: he has the backing not only of the organs of police repression and a very Westernised PR apparatus. He is also supported by a powerful new class of Iranians who have become rich thanks to the regime's corruption - the Revolutionary Guard is not a working class militia but a mega-corporation, the most powerful centre of wealth in the country.
Saturday, 10 October 2009
Zizek on Ahmadinejad
Ahmadinejad is not the hero of the Islamist poor but a corrupt Islamofascist populist, a kind of Iranian Berlusconi whose mixture of clowning posturing and ruthless power politics is causing unease even among the ayatollahs. His demagogic distribution of crumbs to the poor shouldn't deceive us: he has the backing not only of the organs of police repression and a very Westernised PR apparatus. He is also supported by a powerful new class of Iranians who have become rich thanks to the regime's corruption - the Revolutionary Guard is not a working class militia but a mega-corporation, the most powerful centre of wealth in the country.
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