Reply #59: He was a pawn of Big Business, just like Thatcher, though even [View All]

[Joe Chi Minh]

thicker.

However, like many another tin-pot dictator (Idi Amin springs to mind), he excelled in a kind of low kind of cunning, and was able to fool Big Business (and not just in Germany, by any means), who thought they could use him as a disposable tool. Once he was cock-of-the- walk, they ended up having to do his bidding. It didn't require an above-average intelligence to do that - just the cunning and manic determination to exploit their fear and greed. In the corporatists of industry and commerce, we are currently governed by the dumbest SOBs the World has to offer this side of the black stump; our right-wing politicians, but pawns.

A comparably ruthless psycopath, Stalin was nevertheless smart enough to finesse the Allied leaders, which, strange to relate, was no mean feat. De Gaulle, Churchill and Roosevelt were all statesmen worthy of the name.