Kerala, Communism and Human Development

[Max B. Sawicky]

I agree Dorkin's basic point, though it seems to
me as a non-expert to be less true with each
passing year.  So Ken's comrades in Italy were
not wrong so much as premature.

mbs

Having studied political science in Italy and worked with the
extra-parliamentary left there and I can unequivicably state that
whoever said that was way off base.  The PC was way to the left of the
dems (although some were distressingly Stalinist as well) and even the
DC (Christian Dems) were often to the left of the US Dems on social and
economic policy (ex various position minister Ciriaco DeMita, for
example or even ex-DC Romano Prodi current EC Pres. who is certainly
left of say the DLC in the states)

Ciao

"onesaid, "That one is for
> our Communist Party, which is like your Democratic Party, and that one is
for
> our Christian Party, which is like your Republican Party."
>
> Ken Lawrence