Shiites and Stereotypes
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President Jimmy Carter once asked Americans to abandon an “inordinate fear of communism” that “led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear.” That was back in 1977, when a standard critique of American Cold War policies was that policymakers held a simplistic, monolithic view of communism. Not all communists were stooges of the Soviet Union, as China and Yugoslavia demonstrated. And not all national liberation movements were led by communists. More often, they were led by nationalists. Then there was the whole kaleidoscope of the global left: the socialists, the euro-communists, the trade union leaders, the advocates of a “third way” between East and West. It was a mistake to lump them all together as “communists.”
admin @ March 29, 2008