Word: imperialist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government implemented a sweeping agrarian reform which distributed all the land from the wealthy landlords to the poor peasants. Alan Garcia, president from 1985-90, served Peru under the banners of "anti-imperialism" and "social justice" nationalizing private banks and calling for "war on the business class the serves imperialist purposes." I think that these can hardly be called "governments of, for and by the rich white people...
Venezuela was apparently targeted because it had chaired the Security Council session that imposed the sanctions. Another object of mob ire was Russia's embassy. The former Soviet Union was once Libya's best friend and supplier in the "anti-imperialist" struggle...
...idea of Ukraine as a separate country, not least because 20% of the population there is Russian. This is an emotional issue with roots both deep and broad, by no means confined to crazies like Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who calls his party Liberal Democratic but who is actually a fascistic imperialist. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's new book, Rebuilding Russia, appeals to Ukrainians not to go their own way: "Brothers! We have no need of this cruel partition. The very idea comes from the darkening of minds brought on by the communist years...
Lucky Lucky Abdullah Ben Bella (Charles Guerrero) is such a lucky Arabic Algerian that he randomly finds a pair of shoes on the ground that are exactly his size. He is also so lucky that the French imperialist soldiers do not bother trying to kill him--they know he's too lucky to be killed...
...much of the vitality of written history has come from the left. When you read the work of the black Caribbean historian C.L.R. James, you see a part of the world break its long silence: a silence not of its own choosing but imposed on it by earlier imperialist writers. You do not have to be a Marxist to appreciate the truth of Eric Hobsbawm's claim that the most widely recognized achievement of radical history "has been to win a place for the history of ordinary people, common men and women." In America this work necessarily includes the histories...