True enough. I go back and forth beween thinking like Thompson that it
was all a phony hoax-to really oversimplify!!!) and Fred Halliday, that
there really were two opposing blocs with deadly consequences for all
concerned whether in hot wars in the periphery or cold wars for us in the
core. Need to reread the Verso anthology on the Thompson "Exterminism..."
piece in NLR.
Michael Pugliese
P.S. How does the PRC helping that thug, Savimbi, fit into the grand
picture?
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, January 28, 2001 3:48 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:7416] Re: Re: Re: Korean news
>At 02:34 PM 01/28/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>>Good illustration of the E.P. Thompson view that the Cold War was a
>>mechanism used by each systems political ruling class to maintain
domination
>>over their respective populations.
>
>but both sides meddled in the periphery of the other, as when the US
>supported Solidarity in Poland (ending up by corrupting it) and the USSR
>helped the MPLA rebels in Angola (encouraging a different kind of
>corruption). The standard was set with Hungary in 1956, where the US first
>encouraged rebellion against the regime and then refused to support it, in
>order to keep the peace with the USSR. It's a little like the relationship
>between Oceana and Eurasia that Orwell described in _1984_.
>
>Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
>
