RE: [Marxism] WSWS and the SEP

["Walter Lippmann" <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not sure What else your experience is with this group,
but I remember them well from the early 1960s when
they refused to acknowledge that a socialist revolution
had taken place in Cuba because it wasn't led by a
Trotskyist party. They still hold to that position:

"In reality, Cuba, like so many other oppressed countries
in the course of the decades following the Second World
War, provided a confirmation of Permanent Revolution, but
in the negative. That is, where the working class lacked a
revolutionary party, and therefore was incapable of
providing leadership to the masses of oppressed,
representatives of the national bourgeoisie and the
petty-bourgeois nationalists were able to step in and
impose their own solution. Nasser, Nehru, Peron, Ben Bella,
Sukharno, the Baathists and, in a later period, the Islamic
fundamentalists in Iran and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua,
were all examples of this process. In virtually all of
these cases nationalizations were also carried out."
FULL: http://www.wsws.org/exhibits/castro/index.htm

TWO LETTERS ON THE CLASS NATURE OF CUBA:
http://www.wsws.org/correspo/1998/mar1998/cuba-m24.shtml

On the other hand, they have excellent movie reviews and
sometimes have fascinating interviews with people in the
movie world, so they still have something to contribute.

And while I don't agree with some of his analyses, and in
particular on Cuba, his memoir of his experiences with the
Healy group in the UK was very well-written and I it seemed
accurate to me.


Walter Lippmann, CubaNews
http://www.walterlippmann.com



_______________________________________________
Marxism mailing list
Marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism