Re: Why did the USSR fall?

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Devine, James" wrote:
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> It's very rare for a dependent mono-export country to use its bonanzas to develop economically. It's only when left-wing nationalists such as Peron or Venezuela's Chavez decide to shake things up (under the pressure from the workers and peasants) that we see any move in that direction. And often opportunites are wasted.
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One hopes it will change, some day, but currently the likes of Peron (or
even Khomeini or Ghadafi) seem to be the best hope of the peoples of the
non-core nations. Only an authoritarian state can subordinate the
interests of the U.S. to the interests of its own people. I would assume
that Chavez will eventually either establish such a state in Venezuela
or he, like other patriotic Latin American leaders of the last century,
will end up dead or in exile. I believe that is why columnists and
editorial writers can so confidently label Venzuela under Chavez a
dictatorship. They know it will become one or be destroyed.

Carrol