Re: Analogical thinking

["Julio Huato" <juliohuato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nestor:
> > Could it be said that in the end, together with Western Europeans,
> > workers in these countries benefitted more than those in the Soviet
> > Union itself from the October Revolution?


Jim:
>And I wouldn't exclude US workers from the list of beneficiaries either.
>Would the New Deal (not to speak of the Great Society) have been
>conceivable without the October Revolution?

Yes.  The question in my mind is: Why this Hegelian historical irony?  How
about turning things around and making the advances of communists in rich
countries something that benefits the masses of producers in the Third
World?  Is this impossible?  Again, I'm not arguing in favor of passivity in
the Third World.
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