Posted on 11/03/2005 10:57:20 PM PST by Thunder90
Excerpt 1:
"Inside a dank warehouse in the working-class Buenos Aires neighborhood of La Boca last week, young Argentines were standing cheek to cheek and swaying to the danceable rhythms of a live band. But the violins and bandoneones of a tango orchestra had been replaced by the acoustic guitars and percussion instruments of a Venezuelan folk group called Mestizo. The sweat shirts and windbreakers worn by the musicians featured the logo of Venezuela's Ministry of Energy and Petroleum, and the warehouse walls were festooned with fliers that read, toward the construction of 21st-century socialism. Mestizo was in the final stages of an eight-country tour of South America financed by the petrodollars of President Hugo Chavez to promote his pro-Cuba, anticapitalist, Bush-baiting agenda..."
Excerpt 2:
"That [Communist] trend now threatens to engulf Mexico, where the leader of the left-wing Democratic Revolution Party, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, continues to enjoy a comfortable lead in the polls ahead of the presidential election scheduled for next July. It could emerge well before then in Bolivia, where voters will go to the polls in December and Evo Morales, the fiery head of the country's coca growers, is in a statistical dead heat with the leading center-right candidate in the presidential race. It might even extend to Nicaragua, where the veteran Sandinista leader and ex-president Daniel Ortega is hoping to regain power in 2006 after a 16-year hiatus in the ranks of the opposition. Chavez is relishing the prospect. "Daniel Ortega is a close friend... Evo Morales is my friend, another great guy," Chavez told NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth last month. "Latin America today is going to the left and not to the right, [and] we are together in the same revolutionary effort.""
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See the article on MSNBC for the rest of the article.
I thought Pat Robertson was gonna whack him?
Chavez is doing this with Chinese and Russian approval.
Media wetdream
Great. Maybe Mexico will build a big soviet style fence to keep their people from coming here.
Having immigrants coming in is much better than having thousands of commie infiltrators coming in. Thus said, the wall should be built on OUR Side of the border, where we can monitor it.
Wow. I guess the /sarc flag really is a requirement.
I should have figured that it was sarcasm.
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By no means all socialists were killers or amoral. Many were sincere humanitarians; mostly these were the adherents of democratic socialism. But democratic socialism turned out to be a contradiction in terms, for where socialists proceeded democratically, the found themselves on a trajectory that took them further and further from socialism. Long before Lenin, socialist thinkers had anticipated the problem. The imaginary utopias of Plato, Moore, Campanella and Edward Bellamy, whose 1887 novel, Looking Backward, was the most popular socialist book in American history, all relied on coercion, as did the plans of The Conspiracy of Equals. Only once did democratic socialists manage to create socialism. That was the kibbutz. And after they had experienced it, they chose democratically to abolish it.
Or, as Rush Limbaugh more simply puts it, communism has failed every single time it's been tried. Those who do not learn the lessons of history are condemned to repeat the same mistakes. And given the body count caused by communism in the 20th century, people should not underestimate the death and distruction a little "harmless experimentation" with communism and the embrace of a communist "reformer" can cause.
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