[lbo-talk] Gorbachev: I Should Have Left the Communist Party Earlier

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 17 15:02:57 PDT 2011


On 8/17/2011 12:20 PM, Shane Mage wrote:


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> On Aug 17, 2011, at 12:10 PM, Julio Huato wrote:
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>> Living leaders, I'll go with Fidel and Chávez. Chávez is constantly
>> underestimated, even on this list.
>
> Among the leaders of what Samir Amin calls "National/Populist" regimes
> Lula far outranks Castro, Chávez, or both put together.
>

I don't understand why the leader of any "national/populist" regime would be on the same list as Lenin, Luther, Gorbachev. We're talking about the magnitude of an individual's impact on history, not how much we like or don't like him.

SA



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