RE: Comrade Gonzalez

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> Julio Fernández Baraibar <julfb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 04/18/00 02:40PM >>>
> >>> Debordagoria <phantasmagorias@xxxxxxxxx> 04/18/00 11:50AM >>>
>
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> --- Charles Brown <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Elian's father is a comrade, Communist Party member,
> > according to the Sixty Minutes interview with him.
>
> Does being a member of the Cuban CP automatically mean
> one is a Marxist, and thus a "comrade"?
> Just wondering.
>
> ____________
>
> CB: I usually give someone who says they are a communist the benefit of a
doubt until they show me something otherwise.  I presume in favor of those
who declare themselves communists.
>
>
> CB

A simple worker and cuban citizen who is able to mantain the dignity of Juan
Miguel in front of the provocative questions made by the CBS journalist,
able to answer what he answered midst the terrible and pressing situations
that he is living IS MY COMRADE, marxist or not marxist, comunist or not
comunist. And besides he is comunist. What in the hell means to be marxist
in this context I don't know.

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CB: I agree with Julio. I would add that I am sure that Karl Marx would be 
proud as
hell of Comrade Gonzalez.

CBS/Dan Rather, on Sixty Minutes,  asked Comrade Gonzalez, why he didn't want to
"defect" to the U.S. and "freedom". Gonzalez, asked rhetorically, "what is 
freedom ?"
In Cuba , children can go to school without threat of being shot. That is not 
true in
the U.S. That is not freedom.

 How do you like that, CBS/Dan Rather ?

When Rather asked him why the Miami junta would make false claims that Gonzalez 
is an
abusive father, Gonzalez started his response with " Imagine that I would have 
to
answer such a question ."

CB