--- Charles Brown wrote: > Brezhnev was to the left of the Bonapartes , FDR, and Krugman.<
the words "right" and "left" have different meanings (if they have any) under the old Soviet mode of production than they do under capitalism. Brezhnev was just as interested in protecting class privilege as FDR, but it was a different kind of class privilege than under capitalism. ^^^ CB: Well , I was joking a little, but, no, this is not a good understanding of the Soviet system or the Soviet Union in the whole world political context, world political "left" and "right". The Soviet Union was not a new "class" system ( pace: Dijlas), http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDdjilas.htm and the Soviet bureaucracy was not a third class. With all its faults , failures, missteps, "crimes of Stalinists" et al, ultimate "collapse", the Soviet Union, and its leader Brezhnev ( at the time he was its leader) were to the left of Krugman's ideology of "verbal" Social Democracy. So, it was definitely to the left , i.e. acting more in the interest of the workers of the world, even if not "perfectly", than even the best politicians and economists in the imperialists belly of the beast. Well, FDR did ally with the SU against fascism. My comment had some fun in it ( smile). This message has been scanned for malware by SurfControl plc. www.surfcontrol.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
