[PEN-L:9564] Re: Re: Re: My Ideologies

[Dennis R Redmond <dredmond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Doug Henwood wrote:

> 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.....?

They'd become rich, successful semi-peripheries, just like Spain,
Portugal, Ireland, and the Visegrad countries, and a lucky few -- like
Finland and Italy -- would have joined the core. Eurocapitalism has its
faults, but carpet-bombing its main export markets is not among them.

But pay me no mind, I'm just another reedy ideological flack for Mephisto
Mitteleuropa Holdings Gmbh.

-- Dennis