Louis Proyect wrote:
> >I hope the next round when it comes will be better than this one.
> >
> >Chris Burford
>
> Okay. Maybe on that occasion you can explain why the Socialist Foreign
> Minister of Chile is urging that Pinochet be set free. By the way, I want
> to congratulate you on your new-found ability to express anger. I find this
> much more authentic than that phoney blandness you tend to adopt. Besides,
> modern psychiatry has established beyond the shadow of a doubt that
> bottled-up anger causes warts.
>
> Louis Proyect
> (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
Lagos and the Chilean socialist party want to see Pinochet free because they have capitulated to neo-liberalism since they joined the Concertacion in Chile's first post-dictatorship "election". See the book "Democracy in Chile" by Petras, and Veltmayer, Westview Press 1994. The socialist party of Chile contains a number of former MIR militants who were given membership in the party in return for informing the government on the past activities of former comrades. Disgusting. Aylwin's finance minister Ominami was a former MIR militant who used to advocate "armed struggle" but in government he praised the free market for its benign effects on the poor.Some socialist. With the ongoing efforts to see Pinochet tried, I'm curious as to why activists are spending so much time and energy on one man. To be sure, I would swim to Spain to see Pinochet hang, but in my time in Chile i found a lot of Nazi's and there are many individuals in the military and the Chilean establishment who hold more extreme views than Pinochet and would be more than willing to take his place.