[PEN-L:9376] Re: Re: Re: chopped liver

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Perelman wrote:

>Agreed.  We also hear of the North Korean threat.  Remember Reagan's line
>about the Sandinistas being close to southern Texas?
>
>I do not think that those people believe in the reality of such threats.
>Well, maybe Reagan did.

So was the "Soviet threat" real?

I think this point of view doesn't give the capitalists enough credit
for understanding their interests. If they'd let Nicaragua alone,
scores of countries might have followed their example. Ditto Cuba a
generation earlier. Ditto the USSR two or three generations earlier.
Of course there's some paranoid lunacy in the propaganda, but there
are very good reasons for the U.S. ruling class to want to squash any
potential threat to the global hierarchy.

Doug