Steve, I took the title from the article. It was cute, but I don't believe that anybody on this list would think that the article really suggested that he had any sympathy for the KKK. "Devine, James" wrote:
> > > while this is a good debunking of Soro's "humanitarian" pretensions, > it leans heavily toward conspiracy-theory thinking. > > I am sure the guy worked -- and works -- with the CIA, but a > materialist analysis would look for the internal contradictions of the > old Soviet-type mode of production that allowed Soros and the CIA to > be so effective in dismantling bureaucratic socialism. After all, the > Soviets had their own secret interventions into the so-called "West" > that didn't have cause capitalism to fall apart. How is it that the > Soros-style seduction of the "Eastern" elites was so successful? > > While it's likely that the CIA sent a lot of funds to Poland's > Solidarity movement, it would be a mistake to see its origins as > simply a CIA or CIA/Soros plot, as is suggested by the phrase > "CIA-funded Solidarity operation" below. I would look instead to the > failures of the planned economy (the equivalent of capitalism's > crises) and to the class antagonisms in Poland, along with the > traditional antagonism of the Poles toward the Russians. > > >In 1980, Soros began to use his millions to attack socialism in > Eastern Europe. He financed individuals who would cooperate with him. > His first success was in Hungary. He took over the Hungarian > educational and cultural establishment, incapacitating socialist > institutions throughout > > the country. He made his way right inside the Hungarian government. > Soros next moved on to Poland, aiding the CIA-funded Solidarity > operation and in that same year, he became active in China. The USSR > came next. It is not coincidental that the Central Intelligence Agency > had operations in all of those countries. The goal of the Agency was > exactly the same as that of the Open Society Fund: to dismantle > socialism. In South Africa, the CIA sought out dissidents who were > anticommunist. In Hungary, Poland and the USSR, the CIA, with overt > intervention from the National Endowment for Democracy, the AFL-CIO, > USAID and other institutions, supported and organized anticommunists, > the very type of individuals recruited by Soros' Open Society Fund. > The CIA would have called them "assets." As Soros said, "In each > country I identified a group of people - some leading personalities, > others less well known - who share my belief..."16 Soros' Open Society > organized conferences with anticommunist Czechs, Serbs, Romanians, > Hungarians, Croatians, Bosnians, Kosovars. 17 His ever-expanding > influence gave rise to suspicions that he was operating as part of the > U.S. intelligence complex. In 1989, the Washington Post reported > charges first made in 1987 by the Chinese government officials that > Soros' Fund for the Reform and Opening of China had CIA connections. > 18 < > > BTW, the phrase "Imperial Wizard" is cute, but is there any evidence > that Soros likes the KKK? > > Jim -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901
