further update

["michael a. lebowitz" <mlebowit@xxxxxx>]

At 22:28 07/06/2007, I wrote:
>  And just heard when I
> got in tonight that Chavez was on tv and had called for students in
> the universities to form councils-- rather than the standard
> 'representative' student government.

What I see in the on-line papers is that he said that, rather than
talking about the law of communal councils, the focus should be on
the 'law of popular power'-- of which the communal councils would be
just one variant, with the others being workers councils in the
workplace and councils of students (which could get money to
construct new student residences, etc). Clearly, yet another example
of the 'simplistic populism' in vzla that someone wrote for Bush to
speak about.
        m
Michael A. Lebowitz
Professor Emeritus
Economics Department
Simon Fraser University
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