[PEN-L:9540] Re: Re: Re: My Ideologies

[Rob Schaap <rws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What was so demonstrably brutal about the PKI, anyway?

>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