[lbo-talk] Re: Aundhati Roy on the brewing instability in India

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed May 31 14:59:14 PDT 2006


On May 31, 2006, at 5:49 PM, ravi wrote:


> At around 31/5/06 5:25 pm, mike larkin wrote:
>>
>> Let me say that I find [...] posts to be a refreshing corrective
>> to the gloom and doom stuff about South Asia that you read in the
>> left press.
>>
>
> Yes indeed! The reality based world is such a bummer ;-). As President
> Bush has said, someone just has to report the good stuff that is
> happening in Iraq and we will win the war overnight. The pesky
> Kashmiris, Muslims, suicidal farmers would all vanish as so much
> pollen
> in a Claritin ad!

Hey, whatever happened to the old idea that capitalism is full of contradictions, and that bad things happen alongside not so bad things?

Doug



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