Re: Re: Re: Imperialist progressivism (was Re: Thatcher and nationalism)

[Brad DeLong <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> En relación a [PEN-L:1459] Re: Imperialist progressivism (was R,
> el 8 Sep 00, a las 4:46, Brad De Long dijo:
>
> >  So Galtieri's strategy would have worked: the domestic opposition on
> >  the left would have forgotten his crimes and thrown their support
> >  behind his regime--if only he had won his war, and so distracted giddy
> >  minds with foreign quarrels.
>
> The imperialist mind is strong. When the issue is that of socialist
> revolution to win an anticolonial war he brings the fate of that
> small individual, Galtieri...


You (deliberately) misconstrue. The issue is not that of socialist
revolution to win an anticolonial war, but of a fascist dictatorship
to use nationalism--a "short victorious war"--to entrench itself in
power for a generation.


Brad DeLong