>Todd: by "dancing partner" I meant adversary. Actually, Chomsky thinks
>they
>did have a co-dependent relationship: the USSR used the threat of the west
>to strengthen their power over the Eastern Bloc, and the US used the threat
>of the USSR to engage in imperial war overseas. As one might expect, I
>don't agree with this interpretation of history.
Yes, I've read Chomsky's idea to that affect and agree, seeing as how both were states acting as such in the real world of real politik, etc., but there were fundamental differences, which, Chomsky the anarchist, wouldn't care to ponder, I suspect. But the States has always been the clear aggressor, invading the USSR when it first appeared, right down to wooing the capitalist intelligentsia and apparatchiks into bringing "reforms" that eventually helped topple something that might have turned out better, with more time and a different environment.
So what is your interpretation of history wrt this stuff?
Todd
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