Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 23:49:49 -0500
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: M-G: Re: MIM sweeps away assorted rubbish


vladimir bilenkin wrote:

>To phraze your question meaningfully:  Will an American worker, who has
>$30-50,000
>in his Fidelity fund heavily invested into Indonesia or Russia, be eager
>to support a
>socialist revolution in these countries and prevent US imperialists from
>drowning
>their workers in blood?   I leave it for you to ponder over this
>question.

Polls have shown that the average U.S. citizen doesn't give a fuck about
the outside world, and that it takes either a covert war or a mass hysteria
campaign to get a good intervention going.

You & your comrades provide the revo first, ok? You can't even manage one
in Russia.

Doug





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