[lbo-talk] hippies (Re: WMT goes orgo)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 8/30/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 30, 2006, at 11:33 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > By the end of the 1970s, Marxism and secular nationalism, as well as
> > communal counter-culture, had run out of steam, and those who still
> > pulled off revolutions at the tail end of the 70s, in Nicaragua and
> > Iran, did so on the basis of Marxism, nationalism, and religion (more
> > Marxism in ideology in Nicaragua than in Iran, more actual
> > socialization of means of production in Iran than in Nicaragua).
>
> "Run out of steam" is one way to put it. Another is "ran into the
> implacable armed hostility of the United States" would be another.
> Remember the contras?

I'm saying that Marxism and secular nationalism had run out of steam
before the Sandinista and Iranian Revolutions.  If they hadn't, their
revolutions might have taken different shape.
-- 
Yoshie
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