Re: Re: Re: Re: Harry Magdoff on market socialism

[Doug Henwood]

Louis Proyect wrote:

>  >Absolutely no one is holding up FSU as a model for anything except
>>social disaster.
>>
>>Doug
>
>False. It continues to be an example for many in the Third World. The FARC
>in Colombia is basically the rural wing of the CP, which still believes
>that a Soviet Colombia would be a vast improvement over what they have now.
>If you hadn't noticed, the US just committed 1 billion dollars to destroy
>the FARC and the ELN in the name of stopping the drug traffic. If this
>turns into another Vietnam, radicals in the US are going to have the
>responsibility to explain the goals and history of the FARC, just as we did
>with the NLF.

Former Soviet Union, not the formerly existing Soviet Union. I.e., 
Russia & its neighbors during the last 10 years. We can debate the 
merits of the 1917-1991 USSR; there are no merits to debate 
post-1991, unless you like gangsters with state power.

Why did that FARC guy hug the president of the New York Stock Exchange?

Doug