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In reply to the discussion: If Chavez is dead, we need to be in solidarity with the people of Venezuela. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)96. The Sixties New Left was enormously active...they didn't succeed in transforming this country
but it may not have been possible for them to do so.
The New Left, however, by those standards, has largely passed from the scene...and Chomsky, for example, was never exclusively tied to the Sixties formation of it.
This next question isn't aimed at you...but I ponder it...what kind of "action" do the Latin Americans want from us? This isn't a country, for example, where an armed struggle Left could ever work.
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If Chavez is dead, we need to be in solidarity with the people of Venezuela. [View all]
Ken Burch
Mar 2013
OP
That assumes the State Department, the CIA and Wall Street will respect the results.
Ken Burch
Mar 2013
#4
I hear what you're saying...and he did just that in Honduras(which is now a police state).
Ken Burch
Mar 2013
#28
I'm saying the way our government deals with Latin America hardly ever changes. no matter the prez.
Ken Burch
Mar 2013
#84
All the state institutions that existed before him, exist now. Hard to define it as a revolution.
stevenleser
Mar 2013
#13
And it was with the help of our government that things were as they were prior to the 80s.
Cleita
Mar 2013
#30
I'm perfectly willing to call out wrongdoing by people and countries that I like.
stevenleser
Mar 2013
#49
I've not known him to write about countries he doesn't like. He writes about those
Cleita
Mar 2013
#58
I don't just read Chomsky, but he really gets Latin America, so I like him best.
Cleita
Mar 2013
#64
What else is raiding countries that really are no threat to us other than exercising empire? n/t
Cleita
Mar 2013
#70
Let's cut to the chase, how many examples proving you wrong do you want. Pick a number.
stevenleser
Mar 2013
#99
First off, they are not revolutions. In each case, these folks were elected.
stevenleser
Mar 2013
#102
Your say so is not compelling no matter how many times you repeat it. It's not a revolution.
stevenleser
Mar 2013
#104
The difference between us is that I have backup and links for my opinions. nt
stevenleser
Mar 2013
#115
You have no backup for the idea that the Velvet Revolution was a real "revolution"
Ken Burch
Mar 2013
#116
I went to the link...nothing there supports the notion that it was a revolution
Ken Burch
Mar 2013
#119
Then you have invented a new definition of the word. One that I do not accept. nt
stevenleser
Mar 2013
#123
It only qualifies if the change is to the genuinely democratic and radical Left
Ken Burch
Mar 2013
#128
The Sixties New Left was enormously active...they didn't succeed in transforming this country
Ken Burch
Mar 2013
#96
I lived in Chile before Allende became President. I'm quite familiar with that event and
Cleita
Mar 2013
#82
Hungry wolves surround - rich oil supply + fantasies of privatization in their heads
lunasun
Mar 2013
#15
Being critical was one thing...declaring his government illegimate was another.
Ken Burch
Mar 2013
#20
Basically, he paid some poor folks to attend his rallies(a common practice in Latin America).
Ken Burch
Mar 2013
#24
Chavez was a great man. He was a social democrat and one of the few in South America who stood up
craigmatic
Mar 2013
#19
thank the f*** Hillary isn't Sos or she would install Lanny Fuckin' Davis as leader of Ven. n't
Whisp
Mar 2013
#22
Not Lanny-Rahm...with his own drones...and Pinochet's laid-off torture squads.
Ken Burch
Mar 2013
#25
She could've said he was having trouble making ends meet, and needs a second job. n/t.
Ken Burch
Mar 2013
#29
Given the lies and misdirection, and direct intervention in the Americas over the last 100+ years
AtheistCrusader
Mar 2013
#40
Bwahahaha! He was democratically elected. Only oligarchs and their running-dogs opposed him.
WinkyDink
Mar 2013
#44
They are free to start building skyscrapers instead of spending money on healthcare! YAY!!!
idwiyo
Mar 2013
#153
I am expecting several of them coming in to inform us of all sorts of things.
uppityperson
Mar 2013
#56
It is easy to claim things on the internet, to tell stories and all. Did you know I am an astronaut?
uppityperson
Mar 2013
#79
No, the system you describe and desire ca be corrupted by cronyism and political pull.
Flatulo
Mar 2013
#142
The problem with revolutions is that eventually a dictator takes over. nm
rhett o rick
Mar 2013
#144
Yes but it doesnt matter who backs the revolution. The power vacuum sucks in
rhett o rick
Mar 2013
#151