Re: [PEN-L] communism not dead enough

[ken hanly]

Surely many of the communist parties in developed countries have adopted reformist strategies and are no danger to the ruling capitalist parties. Even in China which is supposedly ruled by a Communist Party capitalism is embraced to the extent that private enterprise will soon be the main engine of development with state enterprises being rapidly privatised.

     There are a few countries such as Nepal and the Philippines (NPA) where armed struggle is still alive and well but these are the exceptions. In fact I spent a year in the Philippines and I was astonished by the extent to which the New Peoples Army has influence and even control in some rural areas of the country. Although there have been attempts at peace negotiations they are hampered by US insistence that the NPA be classified as a terrorist organisation. This is probably because as such the leadership of the NPA overseas most notably in Holland has had their assets frozen.

The NPA has demanded that they be removed from the list of terrorist organisations before peace negotiations continue-- or at least that is one story!

Autoplectic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Communism may be dead, but clearly not dead enough

The battle over history reflects a determination to prove that no
political alternative can challenge the new global capitalism