CHECK OUT TODAY'S COUNTERPUNCH
 
Two articles:

http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff07272004.html

and

http://www.counterpunch.org/proyect07272004.html

on the first, the Lindorff: the problem, it should be repeated once again, is that if you struggle for social democracy, you struggle for a regime which oppresses you, and which can oppress you even worse as capital threatens to use its superior powers of mobility.

at this point, it serves us all to remember that capital and labor, that duality that Marx struggled so mightily with, is also a whole.  Capital is a faction of labor, the faction that moves money around while the whole of labor makes the world; capital then assimilates labor to itself, and makes every laborer into a capitalist.

on the second, one can hope that the Nicaraguans, having had their revolution, will recognize that some sort of international solidarity will be necessary to improve conditions.