> CB: Lets say you or Trotsky or Bukharin had defeated Stalin in the
> internal
> party struggles. What would you have done differently over those 70 years
> or
> so ? How exactly would you have not accepted U.S. hegemony ?
The simple answer to that question is... I don't know. (Actually, if I was in charge, things probably would have been much worse. I have only fulfilled subaltern roles within countersystemic movements.) It's one of those questions that I thought about quite a bit when I was younger, and one can while many enjoyable (if academic) hours on the question. It's really a kind of science fiction.
But the reason I brought up the views of the new left wasn't to question the USSR's role in the world system. Rather, it was to point out that the movements of 1968 neither received much in the way of funding nor received much in the way of inspiration from the USSR. Whether those arguments are legitimate or not is another question.
robert wood