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

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

*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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