[lbo-talk] Bush win - Major disaster for right?

[C. G. Estabrook]

Of course that 18-year boom saw the incorporation of Vietnam into a
neoliberal system overseen by the US.  The American war aim in Vietnam --
to prevent the "threat of a good example," an independent and in some
sense socialist model of development -- was certainly achieved, at the (to
the US) small cost of the deaths of 3-4 million Asians and the poisoning
of the land. That's why we dropped several times the ordnance used in all
of WW II on a peasant society.  --CGE

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Dennis Redmond wrote:


> > And as Chomsky has pointed out, Vietnam was damaged
> > sufficiently that the revolution (as opposed to the War for
> > Independence) never really got established; certainly Vietnam is not a
> > very vivid model _now_ of a strong, independent nation outside the
> > imperialist framework.
> 
> Gee, I had no idea this Trung Nguyen coffee I'm sipping and Vietnam's 18
> years supercharged economic boom are just figments of my fevered
> imagination.
> 
> One, two, many Vietnamese/Venezuelan developmental states!
>