The writer is right in saying that, for us, the face of 'bad' is always American - expressed in varying labels and swear words: neo-imperialism, neo-liberalism, അധിനിവേശം and the like. Come rain, shine or high winds, the blame should go to the neo-liberals.
We have the worst of all worlds in a sense - the Communist's habit of paying lip service to old ideologies and then slipping 'reforms' through the back door is a very dangerous exercise - this is what gives life to crony capitalism and mafiosi. We should bring in reforms through the front door - economic freedom, dismantling of the still largely intact license-permit raj etc. Transparency and the rule of law are the pre-requisites for functioning markets. By the way, I learned recently that 'neo-liberal' is a very bad word, something close to 'neo-nazi'. I wonder why, when 'Marxist' is a good word, in spite of the history of a hundred million deaths in pursuit of Marxist policies. Best regards, Murali. On 7/20/07, deepak p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kerala's Communists Balk at U.S. Stores -- and U.S. Jobs > A highway or a river? On the road in Kerala, India. > It's raining so hard the highway looks like a river and the windshield > wipers can't move fast enough to clear the glass. But Reji Shokla, my > fearless driver, races on past a woman swimming to her house, a grove of > battered coconut trees, a Western Union billboard and a poster of Che > Guevarra. Was that a cow with blue horns mooing at me? Welcome to Kerala. > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. - Joseph Stalin To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredon (The Wall)! - Che Guevara -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ greenyouth mailinglist is the activist support mailinglist for kerala To post to this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
