Reparations and capitalist progress.

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Brad:
>Baran and Sweezy lie?

No, they were correct. The world revolution was advancing in the period
from the end of WWII to the Carter presidency. That is the reason the US
launched counter-revolutionary wars all across the planet and put enormous
pressure on the Soviet Union to sell out colonial revolutions. Anybody who
has studied the history of the Vietnam wars will tell you that the
Vietnamese would have achieved victory in 1954 if not for the betrayal of
the USSR. Stalin, Krushchev and Brezhnev were not trying to promote world
revolution. They were for peaceful co-existence. Unfortunately, people in
places like Vietnam felt that peace and injustice were at odds. This
analysis can be found in William Appleman Williams, Howard Zinn and Gabriel
Kolko. I don't have any idea where Brad gets his ideas from, but that sound
suspiciously what I learned back in 1959 when I was in 9th grade.

Louis Proyect

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