BTW Gorby is considerably less unpopular in Russia than he used to be, probably because the Putin government, unlike its predecessor, lets him appear on the electronic media and Putin meets with him in the Kremlin. Gorby never lets a press conference go by without saying a few nice things about Putin.
>From: frank scott <frank at marin.cc.ca.us>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk-digest <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>Subject: [lbo-talk] re: gorby
>Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 12:32:49 -0800
>
>He was, and still is, a wonderful person and a true visionary, but he
>had little, possibly no understanding of where his people were at...his
>arguments for democracy were great, but hardly anyone in the soviet
>union could possibly interpret his words into actions...
>
> a sad, and common case of what happens when people become totally
>enamored with theory entertained by a handful of folks who have time to
>sit around and think, and have little or no understanding of practical,
>material reality as it is lived by almost everyone else...
>
>fs
>
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