Re: Re: Re: Oil & Socialism

["J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>]

      Speaking of mixed feelings about the Soviet
invasion of Czechoslovakia, I just read the obituary
of Gus Hall in The Economist.  It noted that although
he supported that invasion, he had to allow that the
Czechoslovak Communists had some good ideas
so as to avoid a mass desertion from the CPUSA
at the time.
Barkley Rosser
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, November 16, 2000 8:20 PM
>Subject: [PEN-L:4519] Re: Re: Oil & Socialism


>At 07:55 PM 11/16/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>Yes, but I'm more concerned about the politics of oil supplies than either
>>of the above, since it tends to make hundreds of bloody imperial flowers
>>bloom & unleash the dogs of war.  I feel this way perhaps because I'm from
>>Japan (remember World War 2!)
>
>Yes, I understand. I was responding to Mark's somewhat apocalyptic attitude
>toward oil supplies. Even if there is no absolute limit of the sort he
>talks about, there have been a hell of a lot of wars over oil. (Also, did
>you know that the USSR probably cut Cuba's oil supplies in 1968 to get
>Castro to endorse their invasion of Czechoslovakia that year?)
>
>Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
>
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