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Amused at reading an article on El País, under the headline of "Podemos discards solving political conflicts through democratic means", and claiming that it stinks of "Chávez, or something worse". It's quite surreal how for El País, which usually (at least until recently) took a social-democratic position, Chávez has always been Satan. I've heard several theories on why this may be, going from the material (the publishing roup which owns El País has interests in latam) to more hazy stuff on how the hard left is more of a danger to social democratic formations, by leeching their support, than to the right, which isn't going to turn communist tomorrow. Whatever the case, for an organ of the Spanish press to complain that Podemos' processes, whatever else one thinks about it and then, are antidemocratic, and this in a country where political party apparats are practically omnipotent, shows the extent to which this new formation is alarming the factic powers, which can't be all bad. --David. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
