Why has South Africa tolerated Robert Mugabe's years of lawless
misrule?  A wartime lexicon. April 21 2008 11:55 AM  Mandela
Envy  Is Robert Mugabe's lawless misrule founded in jealousy?
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stirring news—that the dockworkers of Durban, South Africa, had
refused to unload a shipload of Chinese weapons ordered by the
lawless government of Zimbabwe—made me remember very piercingly
how good it sometimes felt to be a socialist. Here's a clear-cut
case of solidarity and internationalism in which the laboring
class of one country affirms the rights—"concretely"affirms the
rights, as we used to say—of its brothers and sisters in another
country. In doing so, it improves the chances of democracy
worldwide. This is how socialism began, with Karl Marx and his
allies organizing a boycott of Confederate slave-harvested
cotton during the American Civil War, and however often a
thieving megalomaniac like Robert Mugabe claims to be a
socialist, there are still brave and