Terror Inc.

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu May 9 22:06:51 PDT 2002


Ulhas Joglekar wrote:


>We will be lucky if Marxism survives as a viable political project in the
>long run. How long China, Vietnam and North Korea can survive as nominally
>Marxist-Leninist Regimes? Ten years? Twenty years? I don't know. If and
>when, these CPs cease to be ruling parties, it will be even more difficult
>for Marxism to survive in Asia. I will happy if I am proved wrong.

Depends on what you mean by Marxism. If you mean ML regimes like that, well no, they're dead. But if you're talking about capitalism, it's hard to avoid Marxism. It's how capitalism works - everything else is apology or evasion.

Doug



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