C. Cox wrote: > »The U.S. and EU have never once given support to an actual democratic > movement in any of the world's weaker nations.«
me: > Not exactly true. A movement might start as genuinely democratic and then be > corrupted by US/EU aid. The policy elites count on that. Of course, it > depends on what's meant by "genuinely democratic."< An example, compared to the Polish government of the time (the 1980s), Solidarnosc was "genuinely democratic," but the US and its allies first used it as a Cold War weapon and then corrupted it to be a force for capitalism. On the latter, of course, part of Solidarnosc's problem was the lack of an alternative to bureaucratic socialism and capitalism at the time. Another part was its Catholic connection. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
