From: Rakesh Bhandari (rakeshb@STANFORD.EDU)
Date: Sat May 22 2004 - 13:46:14 EDT
There was a debate at UC Berkeley last year between Heinz Sonntag, retired professor of sociology at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas and Edgardo Lander, professor of social sciences, also of the Universidad Central. Sonntag said "The economic and social policies of his government are basically those of previous governments, subject to structural adjustments and neo-liberal reforms, even as his ideological and political discourse condemns them and capitalism in general as savage, anti-humanist and exploitative," Sonntag said. http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu:7001/Events/spring2003/04-16-03-venezuelapanel/ I did not attend the debate; perhaps Sonntag is a right wing ideologue (haven't read Che Guevara und die Revolution by Heinz Rudolf Sonntag et al.; he announced a new book on social exclusion in comparative perspective) and Lander got the better of him. Perhaps Michael L knows both or either of them, and can comment on their views. Here is a short piece by Sonntag http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:0VBWGohHWJkJ:www.clubofrome.org/archive/publications/Sonntag_Venezuelan_paradox_21_02_03.pdf+heinz+sonntag+hugo+chavez&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
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