To criticise capitalism don't try to defend the dregs of Soviet
socialism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1747664,00.html
In this debate about colour revolutions in the east, the left must not
confuse the right answers with rightwing ones
Timothy Garton Ash
Thursday April 6, 2006
The Guardian
In the last century, we used to have two big arguments: one about
socialism and Russia, the other about capitalism and America. This
century, we're mainly left with the argument about capitalism and
America, as well as some big new ones. But now and then the old
ideological wrangles about Russia and socialism make a shadowy
reappearance, as they have recently on these pages. Some writers have
suggested that the Ukrainian and Belarussian election results spell a
turning of the tide against nefarious CIA-supported "colour
revolutions", inhumane free-market neoliberalism, US propaganda,
western hypocrisy and other evils. It's impossible in a single column
to unpick all the muddled thinking, inaccuracies and half-truths that
accompany such claims, but here are just three sample threads.
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