Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Economic revolutions

["Ken Hanly" <khanly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

They also shoved through all sorts of laws that liberated women and
alleviated some aspects of male dominance
and traditional repression of women. They were far superior to the Talaban
in my estimation. Tradition is usually if not always reactionary. Socialism
from above is better than no socialism at all. It was not mass rejection
that  toppled the Afghan regime but Western weapons supporting reaction.
   CHeers, Ken Hanly


----- Original Message -----
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 3:51 PM
>Subject: [PEN-L:2727] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Economic revolutions


> Louis has joined the "Hail the Red Army in Afghanistan" brigade. It took
10
> years for the CIA to bring out the population of Serbia against Slobo, but
> they did it, though good socialists should have offered the Milosovic
> regime critical support. I am amazed. --jks
>
> ---
>
> Actually I have made my objection to the Afghan attempt to shove
> "socialism" down the throats of traditional village society many, many
> times. If you go to my website, you will see a defense of Miskito rights
> that makes many of the same points. In Yugoslavia, however, the people
> democratically opted for a continuation of Titoist type economics and
> politics. The United States could not tolerate this and tortured them into
> submission. The US and the USSR both were intolerant of dissident views.
>
> Louis Proyect
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