Re: Who's revolutionary? (Was: Intolerance in India)

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 3, 2006, at 12:25 PM, michael a. lebowitz wrote:

> At 11:04 03/11/2006, Doug wrote:
>
> > I interviewed Tariq Ali the other week for my radio show, and finally
> > got to broadcast it last night; it'll be up on my web archive today.
> > Tariq speaks with Chavez fairly often, and says that Chavez regularly
> > says that we are not living in a revolutionary epoch, and all we can
> > accomplish now is a left social democratic set of reforms. "We cannot
> > leap" beyond history, he says - and Castro reportedly agrees. This is
> > what Chavez means when he talks about 21st century socialism.
> >
> > Doug
>
> Bunk.

Could you elaborate? Tariq says he got this directly from Chavez.

Doug