Re: [lbo-talk] (Guardian) Comment is free: Should egalitarians support Chávez?

[george snedeker]

And what should we do if the kind of "democratic" movements that Michael 
likes do not exist and the only real alternatives to U. S. domination of 
Latin America are located in places like Cuba and Venezuela? I'm not sure. I 
offer this as a question to consider before getting too selfwritchous about 
democracy. as we all know, democracy exists no where in the world; there are 
only varying and different forms of tyranny. what is called democracy in the 
u. S. is really an oligarchic republic, not democracy.