Generational Dynamics World View

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(07-02-2018, 07:46 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote:

(07-02-2018, 03:39 PM)David Horn Wrote: >   Really?  Stalin and Mao are hardly exemplars of the left.

...in the 60s, they were all walking around carrying a book of Mao's
Thoughts in the back pockets.

Then when people like me are proved right, and people like you are
proved wrong, that's when you say -- "Stalin and Mao are hardly
exemplars of the left."  Well yes they are, or they were, until
you changed your mind for convenience.

The same is true of Chavez.  All the leftist idiots were in love with
Chavez when he was destroying Venezuela, and people like me were
saying that he was a disaster.  Now it turns out that I was right and
people like you were disastrously wrong, and all these loony left
idiot celebrities and politicians no longer want to talk about
Venezuela...

Let's see. Che, and Castro leap to mind. And the Sandinistas. I have an 1990s Rand McNally Atlas which sings the praises of Dr. Robert Mugabe. The entire period from the Summer of 1972 to November 1989 consisted of the Left claiming moral equality between the US and the USSR.