Re: [Marxism] Is this what Ho Chi Minh died for?

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Nestor Gorojovsky wrote: > Of course, the NYTimes would rather have the rice fields bombed into > wasteland with napalm. Or the Viet Namese coolie-pulling beautiful > rickshaws for wealthy French sugarcane growers while Saigon acts as a > whorehouse of South East

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Re: [Marxism] Is this what Ho Chi Minh died for?

Rather than giving us your ideological reasons for opposing the posting of such issues, Nestor-- or saying other issues must be debated first, why not give us your analysis of what is going on in Vietnam with the turn towards international investment and "market forces"? Now you might say 1) y

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Re: [Marxism] Is this what Ho Chi Minh died for?

Not just happy news allowed here, of course. Almost all news coming from the US of Am are dismaying, for instance. And I not only don´t "censor" them, I also expect you comrades to give me the non-standard view of the US of Am. The standard view being that of the NYT, and similar pages, I would

Re: [Marxism] Is this what Ho Chi Minh died for?

Why? Because the NYT reports it? Is the NYT making this up? Is there no rush of activity to build golf courses? Do golf courses not demand huge amounts of fresh water? Are they not entertainment for the wealthy? Sure, Nestor, and those reports of thousands of children living near lead smel

Re: [Marxism] Is this what Ho Chi Minh died for?

Ho lived to be quite old and died in his sleep. Those who died fighting the French, the US/South Korea/Australia obviously weren't dreaming of revolutionary utopian where socialism would equal soviets + golf courses. That being said, I doubt that any fighter in the NLF or the NVA thinks the wa

Re: [Marxism] Is this what Ho Chi Minh died for?

Of course, the NYTimes would rather have the rice fields bombed into wasteland with napalm. Or the Viet Namese coolie-pulling beautiful rickshaws for wealthy French sugarcane growers while Saigon acts as a whorehouse of South East Asia. I am sure that Ho died for the above not to happen. Other

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