XPost: soc.culture.vietnamese, alt.politics.libertarian, alt.pol   
   tics.radical-left   
   XPost: soc.culture.china   
   From: Mao-ze-Dong@prc.com   
      
   You forget the new Communist   
      
   To get Rich is Glorious---   
      
      
   "crack baby"  wrote in message   
   news:C3h8i.10186$4Y.8396@newssvr19.news.prodigy.net...   
   > I'm an American who thinks Vietnam sucks, and that if we don't bother   
   > to finish the war, then we should at least isolate and subvert the   
   > country until it collapses.   
   >   
   > My biggest complaint is that the Vietnamese people supported such a   
   > bloody war to create a communist worker's paradise where everyone   
   > would be equal and liberated from Western capitalist oppression.  So   
   > once the communists came to power they set about selling the people   
   > to be enslaved and oppressed by Western capitalist countries like   
   > Nike.   
   >   
   > What exactly is liberating and socialist about 8-year-old girls who   
   > work 14 hours a day for US$0.05 an hour just to make Nike executives   
   > and shareholders rich?  I also don't understand how the Vietnamese   
   > "government" considers this employment/enslavement of its subjects   
   > by Western capitalist corporations to be evidence of the success of   
   > communism.  What has the communist Vietnamese government done by   
   > itself since the war that has improved the lives of the Vietnamese   
   > people in any way?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)