Briefly, on another list, I declared it sad that U.S. leftists had spent so much time focusing on Greece and had given so little attention to Haiti & Honduras. (The latter, of course, is a classic example of the horror of u.s. intervention in Latin America.) I have not read Marv's post (escept for the subject line of course) and do not intend to do so.
This fixation on Greece (and the blithe pretense that Honduras does not exist) puzzles me. I also found the debate on Greece between Lou Charlie offensive. What in the hell was either trying to prove -- other than to confess to the fact that their "leftism" was merely a hobby & they did not give a shit what was happening in the world. U.S. leftists (isolated individuals in the case of Charlie & Lou) can have no impact whatever on what is happening in Greece or any other place outside the U.S. For the present, of course, neither were they able to affect any events in the U.S. But in principle, _potentially_, leftists in the U.S. could contribute to affecting u.s. policy by uniting to create A Left where none had existed for several generations. Hence the offense I feel at seeing posters on this list propound on Greece or Syria or China. Probably Luxemburg's alternatives have revealed themselves. The world plunged into barbarism on Aug. 4, 1914, has never emerged, and never will. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
