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

Bhaskar Sunkara bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com
Wed Aug 17 16:12:17 PDT 2011


*Chávez? *As a figure of *world historic consequence*? He's the latest in a long-line of Latin American populists. And in the "longue duree," populism is transitory.

If Gorbachev is a footnote, he's the footnote that played the biggest role in prematurely ending the short twentieth century.

The Deng Xiaoping argument interests me. Certainly what has happened in the past 30 years or so in China has been hugely important, but how much of it can be attributed to the actions of an individual? Would Vietnam, etc. still be locked into a state socialist economy if Deng didn't come to power in China?

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Julio Huato <juliohuato at gmail.com> wrote:


> Gorbachev will be a footnote.
>
> As far as dead leaders go, Lenin and Mao, by far.
>
> Living leaders, I'll go with Fidel and Chávez. Chávez is constantly
> underestimated, even on this list.
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