On Nov 3, 2006, at 8:33 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote:
I wouldn't describe the contemporary Islamist or Latin American movements as "revolutionary" in the sense that they are aiming to change the existing capitalist mode of production in their countries, although it's not clear to me what Chavez has in mind.
I interviewed Tariq Ali the other week for my radio show, and finally got to broadcast it last night; it'll be up on my web archive today. Tariq speaks with Chavez fairly often, and says that Chavez regularly says that we are not living in a revolutionary epoch, and all we can accomplish now is a left social democratic set of reforms. "We cannot leap" beyond history, he says - and Castro reportedly agrees. This is what Chavez means when he talks about 21st century socialism. Doug
