[lbo-talk] Kerala and Cuba

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Thu Apr 24 12:24:18 PDT 2003


Ben Legere was a fascinating radical, who was campaign chair of EPIC. He said that Sinclair was afraid that he would actually be elected.

Got to go. Student here.

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 11:45:52AM -0500, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>
> 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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