Re: Who's revolutionary?

[Dan Scanlan <coolhanduke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 3, 2006, at 7:04 AM, Doug Henwood 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.

This will keep me thinking all day.