Re: Putin's enthronement

[Jim Devine]

At 12:09 AM 5/9/00 +0100, you wrote:
>The left has fallen into the trap of thinking that it should not criticise 
>this Russian regime too much, for fear of appearing to ally with its own 
>ruling class.

I don't know about that. I, for one, likened Putin's rise to power to a 
covert coup d'etat.

I think that the main reason for sparse attention to Putin is that not many 
on pen-l know much about Russia.

Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] &  http://liberalarts.lmu.edu/~jdevine