Re: Left-trends in Latin America 2
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Brian Turner <myrd62@yahoo.com>
Date
Tue, 20 Dec 2005 06:40:39 -0800 (PST)
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--- Rwchina@aol.com wrote:
> They did a pretty good job of ousting Aristide in
> Haiti a couple of years
> ago, despite all the blather about democracy. I
> think there has been a sea
> change in LA over the past years, and it may "take."
> It has certainly been
> facilitated by the "distraction" of the empire in
> the Middle East. But I also agree
> with Mobo that it is very fragile as of now, in part
> because the bottom up
> pressure has not yet been very well consolidated on
> the national state level
> except, increasingly, in Venezuela and maybe now
> Bolivia. This is the overall
> weakness of the new "anti-globalization" movement,
> which not only is not, but
> in some cases is very resistant to the concept of,
> exercising state power. The
> problem is that if the new left governments fail to
> "deliver," they can
> quickly find themselves under renewed "conservative"
> pressure, especially since the
> economies in all cases remain primarily dominated by
> capitalist interests
> tied to global forces. I think the experience of
> the CR is relevant here, since
> I believe that it suffered from a similar inability
> to consolidate at the
> center the democratic gains made at the base, though
> of course the context was
> completely different than that in LA at the present.
>
> Bob
>
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