[lbo-talk] Kerala and Cuba

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Apr 24 09:45:52 PDT 2003


kjkhoo at softhome.net wrote:
>
> Brad DeLong wrote:
> >Kerala has normal politics--"free speech" and all those other snares
> >of the cruel and criminal bourgeoisie. Cuba doesn't.
>
> Indeed. And might that not have something to do with Indians somehow
> managing to uphold democracy in India? Let's see -- what would have
> happened if a Communist Party had gained control of, say, Mississippi?
>

For a starter on imagining this, one might check the history of the failed-but-nearly-successful EPIC campaign in California in 1936. When the capitalists get scared, they can really pour it on.

(EPIC: End Poverty in California; gubernatorial campaign of Upton Sinclair.)

Carrol



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