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Re: NAFTA, Capitalism and Alternatives: Debate, pt.2
Harry seems blind to the fact that in most parts of Mexico the PRI did
not have to cheat to win elections, the Peruvian people voted
overwhelmingly for Fugimori, the Nicaraguans voted the FSLN out a few
years back, the Brazilians voted against Lula and for free amrkets by
electing Cardoso, and to top this off, Lenin and Stalin built socialism
on the backs of the workers and pesants in a more hellish fashion than
capitalism, and betrayed the workers and democracy with their blind
ideology. It is that blindness, that inability to see that the world is
much more complex than our ideological propensities to explain IT, that
makes the left impotent today. The people of Latin America vote for
capitalism because all else so far has been even worse. What is
beautiful about the Zapatista Subcommandante Marcos is that he does not
suffer from this blindness - he talks about democracy, honesty, dignity,
and attacks NAFTA because the governments of the US and Mexico, and the
bigshot capitalists, have abused the open markets and not allowed
capitalism to develop in a way that will benefit the common people.
Marcos has wisely abandoned the narrowminded Marxist rhetoric of the 19th
century that still pervades chiapas-l and Mexico94.
Victor Story
Kutztown University
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