Re: Civil liberties, Environment

[Adam Levenstein <cleon42@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- "Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Even mainstream economists are now questioning
> whether the US economy is
> "healthy" and whether its malfunction is structural.

Yes, but they say that every time the economy takes a
dip. The fact that capitalism as an economic system is
inherently unstable is not something I'm questioning.

>  Communists are not
> taken seriously mainly because relentless
> persecution has marginalized
> all communists in all forms of life.

I think that's fairly self-serving, really. The US'
history of persecution of communists is beans compared
to, say, *Germany's*, but the KPD is still quite a bit
larger than the CPUSA, SWP, RCP, WWP, and the rest
combined.

>  The US economy
> is in fact in great
> danger of imminent collapse.

I didn't say the US economy. I said the US. The US
economy collapsed in the late 1920s - the US did not.

> As Mao Zedong said: "There is a difference between
> contradiction among
> the people and contradiction between the people and
> their enemies."

The problem becomes, who defines who the people's
enemies are, and how? Is anyone who questions a
policy, such as opening up to foreign investment, an
"enemy of the people?" It's questions like that that
make the regulation of free expression, even in
"progressive" societies, an inherently bad idea.

Adam


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Adam Levenstein                          cleon42@xxxxxxxxx
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