(np) Hitch-22

[Michael Bailey]

he laments the lack of an international socialist movement to which
one can belong

he applied for and received US citizenship (and thinks NYC swings more
than London do)

thus I believe he believes in what believers might call the Church Militant

and points to Marx's support of Lincoln's stand against slavery (or,
if that is inaccurate, how about, he supported Lincoln's measures in
the Civil War as being the only way to stop the spread of slavery in
the US)

I read that Marx on the Civil War thing a couple years ago, someplace
funky linked to it so I wound up reading it by mistake, and it was
quite impressive!  To the point of making me wonder if pacifism had a
better way to solve that problem.

I think he probably would want to go ahead and have the US change the
regimes in all those places you mentioned.

Displays some good arguments, 's all I'm sayin'

What I want to do, is backscatter pacifism so nobody ever deposed
Mossadegh, a-and the US just bought Cuba from Spain instead of going
to war, and let Allende be, and for gosh sakes no Iran Contra, etc
etc...

A plan even less practical, for the moment, isn't it?
and how WOULD one eliminate slavery?