Doug:
>> 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
channelling Henry Ford, Mike Lebowitz writes:
> Bunk.
doesn't it matter what "left social democratic" reforms and socialism are defined as? The creation of democratic communities of the poor might be counted as only a precursor of socialism, not as socialism itself. It might be a "structural reform." -- Jim Devine / "Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it means something entirely different." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
