Getting beyond DeLong's Stalin-baiting & Remembering Phil Ochs

[Charles Brown]

Stalin is like Satan. He is still controlling North Korea, 45 years after he died. That's supernatural evil power.

CB


>>> Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> 05/23/00 09:13PM >>>

TRox51 at aol.com wrote:


> So when he does, reach back to 1966 and sing to yourself Phil Ochs' famous line from his blistering polemic against Cold War liberalism: 'When it comes to times like Korea/There's no one more red, white and blue/So love me, love me, love me/I'm a liberal.'

Actually, I think his "Ballad of William Worthy" bears on the situation also. The
easy assumption (based so far as I can tell on atmospheric pressure) that
North Korea is the realm of Satan depends greatly on the walling off of
North Korea more by U.S. seige than by any unwillingness on its part to
welcome foreigners. (Perhaps it is the realm of Satan -- but I have yet to
see anyone *arguing* the point: they merely assert it as something "everyone"
knows.)

Carrol