In a way, this is moot because the era of these types of revolutions might be over, with the collapse of the USSR. Victor Tirado, a Sandinista, argued that the era of anti-imperialist revolutions in the third world might have come to an end based on the experience of Nicaragua. Cuba seems to be the last hold-out. We may be returning to the "classical" norm of Marx and Engels as the wages and working conditions of workers in the advanced capitalist countries is driven down. All we can do in this period is clarify the theoretical questions and begin to coalesce revolutionary socialists around a non-dogmatic and non-sectarian pole of attraction. At least this has been my aim. Louis Proyect On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Reading Louis Proyect's analysis prompts this question: > > What, if anything, can prevent a poor country's campaign > of socialist development from degenerating into > a coercive 20th-century retread of mercantilism? > > I ask because this is what appears to happen, again and again. > > valis > > > > >
