[PEN-L:9539] Re: Re: My Ideologies

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Brad De Long wrote:

>Do the "deaths in Indonesia need to be attributed to liberal U.S.
>capitalism"? To the U.S. national security state, perhaps. But even
>there you have to construct a counterfactual picture of what the
>succession to Sukarno would have been like: rule by the PKI is scary
>to think about.

But it's in no small part relentless U.S. opposition to even the
mildest reformism in the "Third World" that has helped make
revolutionary movements more brutal than you or I would like. Who
knows how the Cuban revolution would have turned out had the U.S. not
tried to smother it in its crib? Who knows what would have happened
elsewhere in Latin America & the Caribbean if the Cubans had been
allowed to go their way? What would have happened in Nicaragua if
Reagan hadn't unleashed the contras? What would have happened in the
USSR had the "West" not been hostile for 75 years? What would
have.....?

Doug