[lbo-talk] Re: Undecided Until the Last Minute Re: Dean's Self-Demolition

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Quoting Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>:
>
>>"Anybody But Bush" crowd really meant what they said, i.e. if they 
>>were in fact serious about the dangers of four more years of Bush 
>>and believed that they must stop Bush by any means necessary 
>>(rather than simply trying to scare Greens and other independents 
>>into backing any Democratic nominee), they would be studying 
>>"regime changes" in the past, from Iran to Yugoslavia to Venezuela
>
>Those are Third World countries or entities, caught up in the throes 
>of modernization and urbanization. The US is a little different -- 
>it's fully modernized, but it's sliding down the economic food chain 
>to advanced Second World status.
>
>-- DRR

The cases of Iran (1979), Yugoslavia (2000), and Venezuela (long 
drawn-out contests for power between Bolivarians and Golpistas, 
involving demonstrations, lockouts, a coup & a counter-coup, etc.) 
are urban-centered "regime changes" in already modern nations, quite 
unlike, for instance, the cases of the Chinese and Vietnamese 
revolutions, which constitute the images of "Third-World revolutions" 
in many people's minds.  It's a mistake to homogenize all nations 
outside the circle of the USA, Western Europe, and Japan as the 
"Third World."

Also, culturally speaking, the USA is farther away from Sweden than 
from pre-revolutionary Iran.  :->

In any case, if there is no Plan B in the event of a Bush victory, 
the "Anybody But Bush" crowd should be renamed the "Any Democrat But 
Bush" crowd, and ADBB should confess that they can very well live 
with Republicans for four more years or even longer, despite what 
they say to Greens and other independents.
-- 
Yoshie

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