Re: Re: Prince Bush wimps out against Communism

2001-09-03 Thread Jim Devine
isn't it also possible that the US wants China to waste a lot of resources on its military, undermining its long-run ability to compete with the US economically? (but then again, who knows?) At 11:22 AM 09/02/2001 -0500, you wrote: I think that's right. In addition, the Chinese do not have

Re: Re: Re: Prince Bush wimps out against Communism

2001-09-03 Thread Michael Pugliese
, September 03, 2001 8:21 AM Subject: [PEN-L:16612] Re: Re: Prince Bush wimps out against Communism isn't it also possible that the US wants China to waste a lot of resources on its military, undermining its long-run ability to compete with the US economically? (but then again, who knows?) At 11

Re: Re: Re: Prince Bush wimps out against Communism

2001-09-03 Thread Jim Devine
I think it's pretty obvious, so I haven't commented on this point before, but I want to object to referring to China as communism (in the subject line). In Marxian terms, China has never been communist. It's a country that's ruled by a party that calls itself communist. To my mind, China's an

Re: Re: Prince Bush wimps out against Communism

2001-09-03 Thread Michael Perelman
Andrew Hagen wrote: In my view, the Soviet regime was on balance much more tyrannical than it was noble. Thus, I argue that the Left should castigate Communists. We have been over this many times now. No need to repeat it again. Let me ask a different question: a revolution has broken out

Re: Re: Prince Bush wimps out against Communism

2001-09-03 Thread Jim Devine
At 04:38 PM 09/03/2001 -0500, you wrote: Does anyone suggest that the Left of today should issue a blanket apology for the crimes of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and the rest? I'm sure that there are people floating somewhere on the Internet who will apologize for these tyrants, just as there are (a

Re: Re: Prince Bush wimps out against Communism

2001-09-02 Thread Michael Pugliese
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Re: Re: Re: Prince Bush wimps out against Communism

2001-09-02 Thread Ann Li
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RE: Re: Prince Bush wimps out against Communism

2001-09-01 Thread michael pugliese
Just glanced at the NYT webpage. David Sanger byline, U.S. Will Not Object to Chinese Missile Buildup. (Course when you only have 18-20 nuclear missiles, even 100 times that is only about half of what the USA currently has under the START II treaty limits with the fSU. My numbers about right?