Got to go. Student here.
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 11:45:52AM -0500, Carrol Cox wrote:
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> 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?
> >
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> 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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