[lbo-talk] Aspect of India's EconReport:TheRealStateofIndia'sEconomy

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Apr 19 18:24:31 PDT 2004


Grant Lee wrote:
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> The short answer is: better the devil we know. I mean, imperial rivalry ---
> expressed ultimately in World War 1 --- hastened the Russian revolution, but
> IMO it set back the cause of socialism/communism in the west by decades.
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Isn't this a sort of academic question? -- after all, no one is asking us whether there should be one, two, or many great powers.

And the devil we know is also the only devil we can fight.

So I don't know how this abstract (or abstracted) opinion is of much relevance to the task of building an anti-imperialist movement?

Carrol


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