Re: [A-List] A Chinese Marxismview: Problemsofint'l.strategyfortoday's China

["Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All soldiers are coerced, despite the fact that their duty is to obey.
The real coercion was on Castro from the Kremlin. If it is only a matter
to fighting for social justice or for revolution, there was plenty for
Cuba to do in the Caribbean or Central America. Cuba did not have to go
all the way to Africa for that. There is no doubt that many Cuba
soldiers believed they were serving a good cause in Africa, but we are
talking about the relationship between geo-politics and  ideology.  One
can also argue that many US soldiers did not feel coerced, at least at
the beginning, about being sent to Iraq, since most of them were in the
volunteer army.

Henry C.K. Liu


bar@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Having met some of the Cuban soldiers who fought in Southern Africa I
> cannot agree that Cuba was coerced. Then you would have to argue that Che
> Guevara's adventure in Tanzania-Congo was coerced when it was clearly
> idealistic.
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> Chris
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> > The complexity of geopolitics interwined with ideological conflict. Mao