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Gorbachev was a "hero" for not being a typical Communist butcher?

interesting.

Reagan's fulfillment of his promise to bring down Communism was not accompanied by its corollary: That the liberation of 3 billion Communist and Socialist (India) slaves, and their conversion to Capitalism, would create a massive army of low cost labor that would precipitate a global shift of wealth from the West to the East. The "huge sucking sound" of jobs moving out of America was not so much to Mexico, but to China and India thanks to their being freed from the shackles of communism and socialism. WE now have 3 billion new eager beaver capitalists who have joined the economic race.

red cent
you read my mind

I actually do remember this in August '89 but it was a small story on CNN when they were a good and real news agency and not a bad 24 hour entertainment show

I must say Longstreet, your grasp of Marxism is shaky at best. I take that into account when I read your posts from now on. Thanks for the thoughtful comment, Red Cent! As a registered Democrat to a register Republican, I am agree with you.

Longstreet: I find you most recent comment to Susan applicable to President Bush, except for the Nobel prize.

[Bush] has no resume, no substantive accomplishments, and is now the butt of jokes, from all sides.

As a registered Republican, I found Bush to be radical. By comparison, President Obama is moderate and mainstream.

Susan: Obama isn't liberal. He is a Marxist to the core. He has no resume, no substantive accomplishments, and is now the butt of jokes, from all sides, as a Nobel prize winner.
Putin/Medvedev and company are gleeful at having such an inexperienced crew running the show. They are already rolling him.
The hardliners from the old USSR are wondering what could have been watching what is happening to us, which was the point of the earlier post.

how did that shock therapy work out?

Longstreet: Why don't you wait for the show to begin to post your comment or shall say commentary on the Obama Administration? Liberals are not Marxists!

Your guest may be familiar with think tanks based deep inside governments that are communist and formerly communist, charged with actively tracking each other and the "movement of democracy" around the world.

For example, vietnam's communist leadership closely watches and takes the lead from china's. can you comment on dynamics between such governments governments today with regard to their policy making?

And would you say it is correct to assume that an ultimate goal of such countries is to keep a Chinese Wall, pun intended, between capitalism and democracy?

If only the Soviets could have held it together for another 20 years, they would have made communism endure.
It's a certainty that the old-time communists that were displaced can hardly believe that the US has a fellow traveler at the helm, with an administration infested with Marxists, appointed by none other than the President himself.
Traditionalist Americans like me share our chagrin, dismay and disbelief with our old commie adversaries. Neither side can quite believe what's become of the US, but lament the changes for vastly different reasons.