[lbo-talk] Chomsky and History

[C. G. Estabrook]

I certainly agree that the left and peace movement need to
remember our victories, not just defeats.  But with 5 million
dead and Vietnam begging for Nike factories, we might be
tempted to quote the one line most of us know from Plutarch,
quoting Pyrrhus of Epirus, in the 3rd c. BCE. --CGE

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:47:38 -0400
>From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>  
>...
>The way Chomsky reads history, Washington has never lost any
war nor  
>anything else for that matter.  :->  That's, of course, what
the  
>business press want you to think.  Apply Chomsky's standard
the other  
>way around, though, and what do you see?  The maximal goal of
the  
>Vietnamese people who fought against the French, Japanese, and  
>Americans couldn't be achieved, but the goal of ending formal  
>colonialism and the civil war was -- quite a victory which
continues  
>to elude some peoples (like Afghans, Congolese, Iraqis,
Northern  
>Irish, Palestinians, Somalis, etc.) on this planet.  In my
view, the  
>left and peace movement need to remember our victories, not
just  
>defeats.