I Don't Get It

Ken Hanly khanly at mb.sympatico.ca
Mon Nov 19 10:35:28 PST 2001


You mean the CPUSA did not support the Soviet intervention?

Cheers, Ken Hanly

----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 10:21 AM Subject: Re: I Don't Get It


> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> >I'm curious about how American leftists reacted to the Vietnamese
> >intervention in Cambodia, the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan,
> >etc. at the time when they happened.
>
> Dunno about VN in Cambodia, but the only left group in the U.S. to
> support the Soviet intervention (or invasion, depending on your
> proclivities) was the Spartacist League. Everyone else was critical.
> The Sparts have reprinted some of their commentaries from then in an
> I-told-you-so manner.
>
> Doug



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