Zizek on Havel

Seth Ackerman SAckerman at FAIR.org
Tue Oct 26 12:16:21 PDT 1999


No, it's a comparison to Latin America during the Cold War.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad De Long [SMTP:delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 3:09 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: Zizek on Havel
>
> >Letter from Noam Chomsky to Alexander Cockburn, March 1, 1990, reprinted
> in
> >Cockburn's _The Golden Age Is in Us_.
> >
> >"Dear Alex,
> >...It's also unnecessary to point out
> >to the half a dozen or so sane people who remain that in comparison to
> the
> >conditions imposed by US tyranny and violence, East Europe under Russian
> >rule was practically a paradise.
>
> Is this supposed to be a comparison of Western Europe to Eastern Europe?
>
>
> Brad Delong



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