The Beginning

[Dennis]

> I can't help but think Carrol is right about all this. There's much to
> mourn about right now, but this isn't a time to be gloomy; rather, the
> violence of neoliberalism is finally erupting into geopolitical violence,
> the sort which has always accompanied revolutionary eras. The
> petro-periphery of Central Asia is going to explode, ushering in a period
> of seismic political transformation which may bring the most horrific and
> barbaric regimes to power; it may also spur new revolutions, and the
> Central Asian equivalent of Lenin, Trotsky, Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong and Ho
> Chi Minh.
>
> -- Dennis

So, in other words, there will be more bloodshed -- lots of it in fact --
though in the Next Phase it will be shed in the name of The People instead
of Allah. Can't wait.

DP