On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Fred Feldman <[email protected]>wrote:
> Dennis Brasky goes over the top in accusing Nestor of "political > cowardice" not agreeing with him and others who seem to argue that the > emergence of golf courses in Vietnam (related to the emergence of a new > rich > layer and to the importance of tourism for the Vietnamese economy) > represents the defeat of everything Ho Chi Minh fought for. > > reply - Cowardice is the avoidance of discussing the issue with the lame excuse that it was covered in the bourgeois media. I did not say or imply that Vietnam was now a capitalist state because of its golf courses, but objected to the sweeping of the issue under the rug simply because the NY Times had a story about it. I don't think that the Vietnamese people have anything to fear from our "defeatist spirit"and "hysterical tone", or the attempts by some to live in denial. ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
