Re: Re: Re: Re: Harry Magdoff on market socialism

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect wrote:

>  >Absolutely no one is holding up FSU as a model for anything except
> > social disaster.
> >
> > Doug
>
> False. It continues to be an example for many in the Third World. The FARC
> in Colombia is basically the rural wing of the CP, which still believes
> that a Soviet Colombia would be a vast improvement over what they have now.
> If you hadn't noticed, the US just committed 1 billion dollars to destroy
> the FARC and the ELN in the name of stopping the drug traffic. If this
> turns into another Vietnam, radicals in the US are going to have the
> responsibility to explain the goals and history of the FARC, just as we did
> with the NLF.

Former Soviet Union, not the formerly existing Soviet Union. I.e.,
Russia & its neighbors during the last 10 years. We can debate the
merits of the 1917-1991 USSR; there are no merits to debate
post-1991, unless you like gangsters with state power.

Why did that FARC guy hug the president of the New York Stock Exchange?

Doug