[lbo-talk] Alex Cockburn on India: wrong? (was, U.N. seeks aid...)

[Michael Pugliese]

On 8/12/05, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:Tell that to the
American yahoos who were sounding the alarm about the Cnooc tender for
Unocal. A large portion of the US elite is worried about China as a
potential rival, and with good reason.

   Co-Chair of the U.S.-China Friendship Association 'sez
in the Aug-Sept. '5 newsletter of the Northern Ca. Committees of
Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, pg. 2.

   "The June issue of the liberal Atlantic Monthly features a glaring
and hostile Chinese sailor under the headline, 'How We Would Fight
China.' This issue is devoted to a discussion of possible military
scenarios for a preemptive war against the
PRC...

   As the politics of the US continues to slide to the Right, many
progressives have found it difficult to maintain their bearings. The
hostility of liberals to socialist China (and North Korea) is now
echoed by many progressives and by some self-styled Leftists. The
Monthly Review piece [Hart/Landsberg and Burkett's, 'China and
Socialism, '] is an unfortunate example of a radical journal embracing
much of the Bush hostility to China from a, "Left, ' perspective that
indirectly helps cement the growing liberal-conservative consensus for
war with the PRC..."

                                               Very truly yours,

                                               David W. Ewing

                                               San Francisco, 7/6/05

  

-- 
Michael Pugliese