Kerala, Communism and Human Development

[David Dorkin]

There has been "convergence" of a sort but let's not exagerate;
Rifondazione Communista, the leftmost inheritors of the PC is far more
progressive in many ways than most US Dems and even the tamer
Democratici di Sinistra (Left Dems) of Massimo D'Alema and Walter
Veltroni could conceivably hire you, Max, and endorse EPI's policy
prescriptions, as could some of the ex DC people. 

Max B. Sawicky wrote:
> 
> 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