[lbo-talk] Stupid Elections, Leftist Cowards

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Take a look at the left's election victory in Uruguay. The new 
>government's choices boil down to trying some kind of left program 
>and facing a capital strike and economic crisis or trying the Lula 
>approach of moderation and facing failure and defeat. You act as if 
>it's just a matter of fidelity and will, and we face no structural 
>constraints at all in the real world. It's a lot easier to call 
>other people stupid, isn't it?
>
>Doug

Structural constraints surely exist, but there is also the shining 
example of Venezuela.  The Hugo Chávez government and its supporters 
tried a kind of left program, confronted a series of backlashes (from 
a capital strike, a coup, lockouts, mass media propaganda, to a 
recall initiative), and survived them all -- without resorting to 
dictatorship, no less -- to continue the Bolivarian process.
-- 
Yoshie

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