Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 15:00:49 -0500 From: XTROT666-AT-aol.com Subject: Re: Zapatistas The enlightened John Foy wrote: >It is inevitable that Communism will be defeated in Mexico as it has been defeated throughout the world. While I cannot defend many of the actions the Mexican government has taken, I know I cannot trust the press releases the communists are putting out. The Zapatista rebels and other such "agrarian reformers The Zapatista rebels and other such "agrarian reformers" cannot be trusted any more than the corrupt government they oppose. The only true hope for reform in Mexico is through peacable capitalist progress. Long Live Adam Smith,< Not that this really deserves a reply... It is precisely through "peacable capitalist progress" that regimes like Mexico are allowed to concentrate virtually all of the national wealth at the top, leaving most of the population (some of whom have the nerve to struggle for agrarian reform) in squalor. I would be interested to know what Foy thinks of other capitalist regimes such as Guatemala and Indosesia. For that matter, what about the BRAZILIAN MIRACLE from a few years back, where 90 percent of the population lived under conditions so horrible, as to make pre-Gorbachov Soviet Union look like paradise? Please don't point to peacable capitalist countries like Sweden. Under Mexico's (and the US's) criterion, if a third world country tried to emulate Sweden's kind of capitalism, its leaders and supporters would have to be murdered. For that matter, Nicaragua had less nationalized property than does Sweden, but was targeted by peacable capitalists for a campaign of terrorism. And as far as Adam Smith goes (whom Foy obviously hasn't read without ideological blinders), if he and Karl Marx were alive today, they would temporarilly put aside their differences (which are fewer than Foy imagines) and commit themselves to attacking the worst enemies of freedom, most notably the peacable capitalists for whom free trade amongst nations and peoples is to be avoided at all costs, even if the price is murder. Don --- from list marxism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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