Re: [A-List] Brazil’s Objections Slow Chávez’s Plan for Regional Bank

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

> If we had a social force capable of doing so, yes, but we don't have
> it, for the time being.

That's what SDS'ers said in 1969 and that's what led them to engage in 
Walter Mitty fantasies about Vietnamese rice paddies. At least, if you 
idolize the NLF, you are idolizing socialists.

There hasn't been a "social force" that would pass muster with you since 
1945-1946 perhaps, when GIs organized mass actions to be sent back to 
the USA from Asia and then trade unions embarked on a massive strike 
wave. The CP was still strong as the Wallace campaign of 1948 would 
indicate.

Yoshie, you have the typical short attention span of somebody who 
dabbled their big toe in socialist politics and then found the water too 
cold. You would do less harm if you put radical politics behind you 
completely and took up folk dancing or raising money for the Prebyterian 
Church's social welfare programs instead of providing PR for the Iranian 
government which rose to power over the dead bodies of socialists.