Sounds like a strange description of Latin American populism to me, not that I've made a study of it. Odd description of China too. I don't really see the anti-imperialism --> rabid gangster/crony capitalism cause and effect relationship in the case of Russia either.
--- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
> --
>
> [WS:] I think you draw a wrong conclusion, Yoshie.
> Both Latin American
> populism and US fundamentalism are reactionary and
> fascist in the way
> National Socialism was - nationalist, nativist in
> the sense of favoring
> extension of rights, privileges and economic
> benefits to the native folk
> while denying them to unpopular groups, and
> anti-internationalist. Only if
> one assumes a staunchly anti-American or
> anti-European stance, such
> reactionary Third World populism can be interpreted
> as a 'progressive'
> force.
>
> In my book anti-imperialism, which is a thinly
> veiled code word for
> anti-American or anti-European chauvinism found in
> the Third World
> countries, is socialism of the fools. It almost
> invariably has one of the
> following two grand finales - metastasis to a rabid
> crony or gangster
> capitalism (e.g. Russia, China) or total breakdown
> complete with pogroms and
> genocide (e.g. Yugoslavia, Africa.) I predict the
> same for your pet
> country, Iran.
>
> Wojtek
>
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